This article reports on evaluation studies of the Virtual Tutee System (VTS) designed to enhance students' engagement in academic reading. The VTS is a web-based peer-tutoring environment in which students teach a virtual tutee about the content in course readings that students have been assigned to learn. With the VTS, students interact with…

TESOL programs and courses around the world are increasingly offered partly or wholly online. Online instruction offers both new affordances and distinct challenges for effective instruction, particularly when it comes to supervising fieldwork. This article compares 2 distinct online formats for student reflections on their tutoring experiences in…

"Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies" is a peer-tutoring program for use in elementary school classrooms to improve student proficiency in reading. Its purpose is to supplement students' existing reading curriculum. "Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies" was developed for use with students with diverse academic needs and has been…

Surveys materials, available through the ERIC system, concerning peer tutoring programs. (JM)

This article briefly reviews the research on classwide peer tutoring and presents guidelines for implementing peer tutoring in classes that include students with disabilities. It discusses preparation of materials, assigning students to pairs, student training, and classroom implementation. Specific application to reading instruction is made.…

Argues that peer-assisted learning is a good option for teachers concerned with providing as much individual help as possible to their students. Describes one such peer tutoring program. (FL)

This program, included in Effective Reading Programs . . . serves approximately 500 pupils in kindergarten through grade six who are eligible for Title I services. About 50 percent of the students are black and about 50 percent are white. Pupil selection is based on low reading capability as determined by test scores, pupil performance, or teacher…

A Chicago project used the concept of the extended Black family and the interdependence that exists within that relationship to develop a peer-group/cross-age tutoring program as a strategy for teaching and/or reinforcing reading skills. (Author)

Discusses the selection and training of student tutors for college reading programs, the supervision of tutors, and studies of the effectiveness of college-level peer tutoring programs. (GT)

Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring is presented as an innovative, research-based instructional alternative that gives teachers greater flexibility to accommodate diversity while increasing students' opportunity to engage actively in meaningful, strategy-based reading practice. During 35-minute tutoring sessions, students participate in partner…

A multiple baseline design was used to examine the effects of classwide peer tutoring relative to traditional reading instruction on reading skills and social interaction time for three high-functioning students with autism and their typical peers in integrated elementary classrooms. Results revealed increased reading fluency and reading…

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

Reviews several programs using students as tutors of younger students. Also lists sources of materials for use in such programs. (TO)

The success of the Paired Reading (PR) technique is examined, and a study involving 43 pairs of Hong Kong students (ages 10-11) in a PR project is reported. It is concluded that the projects' success may not lie in the technique itself but in improving tutees' motivation, confidence, and self-esteem as readers. (JDD)