The Junior League/Vancouver School Board tutorial Program began in September 1973. A coordinator was hired to train and supervise community volunteers who would tutor children with reading difficulties using a synthetic phonic program with multisensory reinforcement. Forty children, seventy-seven tutors, and twenty-two schools have participated in…

A quantitative way of measuring peer tutor training programs and peer tutor effectiveness is presented. The evaluation of a peer group training course at Baruch College (City University of New York), for which this questionnaire was developed, is described. This measure is adaptable to most higher education peer tutoring programs. (Author/BS)

Reviews ERIC materials dealing with effective tutoring programs. (FL)

The DC Reads program was first implemented during the 1997-1998 school year as a partnership among the Corporation for National Service; District of Columbia Public Schools; Communities in Schools (CIS), a nonprofit corporation; and six local universities, with Georgetown University acting as lead. During the 1998-1999 school year, it expanded to…

Evaluation of Lenoir City, Tennessee pilot program using 14 retirees to tutor fourth and seventh graders one-to-one in reading using Laubach Reading Method indicated that fourth graders were more positive about the program; Laubach materials were too easy; and pre- and posttutoring California Achievement Test scores did not support reading…

This compendium provides an overview of evaluation reports on specially funded programs that operated in the Detroit Public Schools during the 1990-91 school year. The programs are those funded by either the Detroit Board of Education, Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Improvement Amendments, Article 3 of the State Aid Act, Gifted and…

This pamphlet provides educators with a consumer's guide to private tutoring services in their communities. It includes a history of the tutoring tradition, methods used by tutoring services to show student progress, procedures for locating a tutor or tutoring service, criteria for selecting a tutoring service, a checklist for assessing tutoring…

In September 1978, the Lenoir City (Tennessee) school system initiated in two elementary schools a volunteer tutoring program called the Retirement Power in Education Project (RPIE). Fourteen volunteers, including twelve retirees, were trained to use Laubach reading materials in tutoring fourth and seventh graders. In evaluating the project one…

This paper describes procedures developed for evaluating the tutorial program at a two-year college. At the end of each school term, evaluation forms are sent to faculty from whose classes the tutees have come, to the tutors, and to the tutees. As part of an objective evaluation system, the program directors have developed a method for converting…

This paper argues that the dynamics of a successful college tutorial program should include the following components: well planned objectives, goals, and standards; enough capable staff; an inservice training program; adequate financing and space; efficient paper management procedures; and an effective means of evaluation including the willingness…

This article presents a summary of a peer tutoring program survey and a report on the broadly based campus senate. The summary of peer tutoring programs reviews survey methodologies and peer tutoring programs. The program review indicates goals, finances, selection of tutors, tutor training, tutors' wages, the number of tutees, matching for…

As a result of the America Reads Challenge Act of 1997, numerous tutoring programs have been established to help ensure that every child reads independently by the end of third grade. This book describes exemplary America Reads programs across the country as well as other effective early literacy interventions, including Reading Recovery, the…

Provides resources for teachers who wish to establish programs of peer or cross-age tutoring. (FL)

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)

Describes the Student Learning Center at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, which identifies and provides support services for high-risk courses, rather than high-risk students. Presents an evaluative research study of the supplemental instruction provided to an American history class and the effects of students' achievement and persistence.…