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Miller, Michael F. – 1985
The goal of the 1985 Queensborough Community College (QCC) Pre-Freshman Summer Program (PFSP) was to ease the transition from high school to college for entering College Discovery freshmen in order to improve their academic performance and increase their chances for retention at QCC. The 6-week program included academic tutorials in reading,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Bound Students, College Preparation, Community Colleges
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
This hearing provides information on major issues that parents and educators face in establishing a parent teacher relationship conducive to improving American education and discusses ways some communities are successfully dealing with those issues. Prepared statements testify to the effectiveness of established parent and community volunteer…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Parent Participation
Kamm, Steven D. – 1981
This evaluative report summarizes the objectives, costs, and outcomes of a project undertaken by South Oklahoma City Junior College to develop 50 computer-based tutorial lessons to assist students in mastering the requirements of a competency-based physics course. A rationale for the project is presented first, based on the inordinate amount of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Costs
McConnell, Beverly – 1974
An early childhood education program for children of migrant and seasonal farm workers, the Project provides tutoring, usually outside of regular school hours, to kindergarten and first grade children. The tutoring is done by adult paraprofessionals who are former migrants or seasonal farm workers. Program focus is to: (1) develop the child's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives
Halls, William Alford – 1976
This study sought to determine the effect of the Grant Von Harrison Lay Tutor Program on low-achieving, sixth-grade students who became tutors and on low-achieving second graders who were tutored. Experimental groups and control groups of sixth graders were formed from a list provided by the principal. Students were pre- and posttested for reading…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Criner, 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
Langley, Janis; And Others – 1973
Project Keeping All Pupils in School (KAPS) is a dropout prevention program designed by officials in the Baltimore City Public Schools, supported by Federal funds under the provision of Title VIII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act (PL90-427). The KAPS Program consists of six components. They include: Daily Program, Service to Aid…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Morrison, Lonnie – 1974
This study was undertaken to evaluate the State University College at Oswego's special program to determine the degree to which the program has enhanced the academic success of special program students. Twenty male and 20 female students were randomly selected from each of three classifications of the 1970 freshmen class: regularly admitted…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Freshmen, College Programs, College Students
Stavros, Denny – 1971
The School Volunteers Program functions to facilitate the recruitment and placement of volunteers in several Title I designated schools, and is funded under Title I, E.S.E.A. While the services provided by the volunteers may on occasion include non-instruction related duties, the principal role performed by the volunteer is that of a tutor. Thus,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education, Program Evaluation
Stavros, Denny – 1971
The four initial general goals of the projects, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, are: (1) to raise the achievement level of the target group children; (2) to increase the overall participation of parents in school related affairs; (3) to attempt to influence parents' competence in dealing with their everyday…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, After School Programs, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1982
Reports the results of a survey of 82 schools in South Australia and 40 schools in the United States concerning their use of paraprofessionals in their reading/tutoring programs. (FL)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Ward, Annita Marie – 1995
A study investigated the effectiveness of a Salem-Teikyo University (West Virginia) program of English-as-a-Second-Language conversational tutoring for a cohort of 185 Japanese students and a similar but smaller Japanese-as-a-Second-Language tutoring program for the English-speaking cohort. Data were gathered through surveys of faculty (n=4),…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Little, Joanne – 1990
This manual details the fundamental steps necessary to create a successful tutoring program. It is based on the experiences of the Anderson (South Carolina) School District One (ASDO) in their tutoring project initiated in 1989-90. The school district intended to increase homework completion, raise test scores, improve attendance, and generate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Dropout Programs, Educational Objectives
Chamberlain, Ed – 1994
The program, which lasted 136 days, was designed to provide classroom or tutorial services in the area of language development for pupils served in Chapter 1 eligible facilities for the neglected or delinquent. The evaluation of the program was based on standardized achievement test information (grades 2-12). Data were collected for the period…
Descriptors: Delinquent Rehabilitation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Schools
PDF pending restorationPoblete, Patricia – 1990
This report describes a 3-year project (1987-1990) implemented to assist migrant families and their children in transition to public school kindergarten and developmental kindergarten classes. The project served 30 children and 24 families in Ft. Pierce, Florida, approximately 75 percent of whom were Hispanic and 25 percent were Haitian. Goals…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Groups, Kindergarten, Migrant Education
