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Peer reviewedFurbee, Jack W. – Education, 1973
Purpose of this study was to determine what effect tutoring by the CETA model had upon tutees and non tutees who were black students at St. Anne High School, St. Anne, Illinois. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Black Students, High School Students, Program Descriptions
Download full textCriner, Beatrice H., Ed. – 1974
This report is based upon one component of an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I project in the Lenoir County, North Carolina, public schools for the 1973-74 school term. Programed Tutoring was developed as a supplement to classroom teaching. The three basic skills of reading (sight reading, word analysis, and comprehension) are broken…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Leach, Mozelle P. – 1987
In order to investigate the efficacy of a decade-long language arts tutoring program, a study compared students' responses to a survey of their participation in and attitudes about the program with their Reading, Language, Math, and Total scores on the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) and other tests. The tutoring program assigned college students…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Patel, Fay – 1991
Initiatives are described that have been undertaken by the Student Development Tutorship Programme at the M.L. Sultan Technikon in South Africa, a program established in 1990 to provide assistance and support to disadvantaged students, primarily Black students from areas with inadequate facilities and instructors in the "homelands" and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Lahn, Alan M. – 1971
This paper reports on changes in students' study habits and attitudes during the Prep Program at Shippensburg State College. Fifty students, 40 black and ten white, were selected for the program for high-risk minority group students, and granted admission to Shippensburg for the Fall of 1970. The Prep students spent six weeks on the Shippensburg…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Black Students, College Preparation, College Programs
Fass-Holmes, Barry; Ciriza, Frank – 1996
The Reading Recovery (RR) program of the San Diego City Schools (California) has expanded over the last 5 years and now includes 38 schools. This report documents the program's short-term and sustained efforts to increase reading achievement and its central office costs. RR is a Title I-funded early intervention program that uses one-on-one…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans
Zanoni, Candido – 1980
The specially funded program described in this report was implemented at the University of Minnesota's General College in Fall 1979 to promote the academic improvement and long-range retention of high-risk Black, Hispanic, and Native American students. After introductory material discussing the process involved in securing program funds from the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Basic Skills, Black Students, College Freshmen
Zanoni, Candido P. – 1980
Efforts of the General College of the University of Minnesota to increase student retention during the 1979-80 academic year are described. The target groups were high-risk students, especially representatives of minority groups from traditionally nonacademic populations. The college mounted a pilot education program (PEP) comprising three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Romano, Joan L.; Garfield, Joan B. – 1980
An end-of-year evaluation of the 1979-80 University of Minnesota's General College (GC) Pilot Education Program (PEP) for academically underprepared minority group students is presented. The results show that compared to other GC students, the PEP students came to the college with weaker academic skills, and had different personal characteristics.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Boughan, Karl – 1996
The Office of Student Support Services (SSS) at Prince George's Community College (PGCC) is an academic support program for at-risk students. Created for low-income and first-generation students and those with physical and learning disabilities, the program provides specialized study tools, tutorial assistance, and social and emotional support.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Asian Americans
