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Peer reviewedParker, Richard; Hasbrouck, Jan E.; Denton, Carolyn – Preventing School Failure, 2002
Suggestions for tutoring students with reading problems include repeated reading with a model, oral reading with monitoring and feedback, error monitoring, and reading practice of difficult words. Evaluation methods include evaluating oral reading accuracy and oral reading fluency, and flashcard assessment. Suggestions are also offered for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Program Evaluation, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedRidge, Aldema A. – Clearing House, 1982
Describes the Senior Adult Volunteer Program of the Howard County, Maryland, public school system, which brings older adults and middle school students together in a tutoring situation. Reports that the program has produced student gains in both the cognitive and affective domains. (FL)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Middle Schools, Older Adults, Program Descriptions
Texley, Lloyd C.; Dvorak, Ronald S. – 1973
The purposes of the Multiple Activities Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, were: (1) to supplement the instructional program for educationally disadvantaged children by developing a curriculum and techniques, specifically in reading, which would raise their achievement level commensurate with their…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textRamsay, James G. – 1975
This program for institutionalized children, funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965, involved approximately 2181 children in 35 institutions in the New York City metropolitan area. Children were institutionalized for a variety of reasons: they were orphaned, neglected, dependent, in need of supervision, or emotionally…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, After School Education, After School Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Longo, Alexander A.; Giunti, Frank E. – 1972
The Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Division of the U.S. Army Signal Center and School (USASCS) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey evaluated CAI's success in teaching basic electronics. An initial feasibility study, interim assessments, and a summative evaluation assessed the value of the developmental, user-oriented, individualized CAI programs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Programs, Electronics
Barr, Avron; And Others – 1975
The BASIC Instructional Program (BIP) is an interactive problem-solving laboratory that offers tutorial assistance to students solving introductory programing problems in the BASIC language. After a brief review of the rationale and origins of the BIP instructional system, the design and implementation of BIP's curriculum information network are…
Descriptors: Branching, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development
Chapline, Elaine B. – 1974
The Reading Skills Centers, funded under Title 1 of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, were designed to improve reading skills of the target population consisting of optional assignment children who were economically deprived and retarded in development of reading skills. Centers were operated in six elementary and one junior high…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Schools, Individualized Instruction, Junior High Schools
Lyons, Linda; Oxman, Wendy G. – 1974
A Diagnostic and Remedial Reading Center was organized at the District Office to service 160 pupils in District 22, Brooklyn, elementary schools who were diagnosed as non-learners. A total of 60 pupils were given remediation and therapeutic services four sessions a week during the regular school day. An additional 20 pupils received intensive…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Individualized Instruction, Junior High School Students, Low Achievement
Center for Research on Elementary and Middle Schools, Baltimore, MD. – 1987
If schools improved the academic performance of at-risk students beginning in the early years and continuing through the elementary grades, this improvement would have multiple positive effects on student dropout, delinquency, pregnancy, substance abuse, and other behaviors. Early improvement of poor academic performance could greatly alleviate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Learning, Early Intervention
Azcoitia, Carlos; Sloan, Charles A. – Illinois Schools Journal, 1990
Describes and evaluates a peer tutoring program in the Chicago (Illinois) Public Schools that provided academic assistance to special needs students who were experiencing difficulty in reading and mathematics in vocational education classes. Objective was to provide individualized instruction and support for disadvantaged, special education, and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Individualized Instruction, Learning Problems
Abraham, Solomon T. – 1997
The Mathematics and Computer Science Learning Center (MLC) was established in the Department of Mathematics at North Carolina Central University during the fall semester of the 1982-83 academic year. The initial operations of the MLC were supported by grants to the University from the Burroughs-Wellcome Company and the Kenan Charitable Trust Fund.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Centers, Computer Networks, Computer Science Education
Riggle, G. Thomas, II – 1975
Since 1970, the developmental mathematics program at the Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) has consisted of three courses of individualized instruction. A pretest is given to determine proper course placement and all modular units are accompanied by regular lectures. This practicum was designed to determine the attitudes,…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Programs
Van Wessem, Katherine – 1968
Underachievers from junior high grades were assigned to tutor younger children classified as slow learners. Tutors volunteered and were given choices as to what they would teach; however, stress was usually on their own educational needs. No research was presented but a general evaluation of the program indicated success. Students learned from…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Individualized Instruction
Rickards, Joseph M. – 1983
A program was developed to train community school administrators in the Garfield School District (Panguitch, Utah) in the skills, techniques, and understandings essential for implementing and evaluating a successful multiple-option instructional program for adult basic and adult high school students. The need for the program was determined because…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
