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Download full textCondravy, J. C. – 1990
Slippery Rock University's tutor training program, "Learning Together: An Interactive Approach to Tutor Training," was instituted in January 1983 to prepare newly hired tutors to provide academic and study skills assistance to regularly admitted and academically underprepared students. The program, funded jointly by a state Act 101 grant…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Models
Girrbach, Charmaine J.; And Others – 1991
PRIDE (Providing Resources and Information Designed to Educate) is an after school tutorial project for Hispanic students, grades 7-9, attending the school district of Saginaw, Michigan. The project is intended to provide approximately 70 at-risk Hispanic junior high students with an after school center where they can go to receive help with their…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, High Risk Students, Hispanic Americans, Junior High School Students
Bender, David S. – 1997
This study investigated the effects of a study skills course combined with or without class-specific tutoring, and whether or not faculty would be able to observe differences in behavior of high risk students as a result of student participation in the two different levels of intervention. Students (n=22) in the College Skills Development Program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, College Freshmen, College Students
Guyer, Barbara P. – 1989
Higher Education for Learning Problems (H.E.L.P.) is a tutorial program for students at Marshall University (West Virginia) who have learning disabilities. Tutoring in coursework is done by graduate assistants under the supervision of the director or assistant director. Remedial instruction in reading, spelling, and written language is provided by…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
Tutor Resource Manual: Tutoring Students in the Community College. Includes Section on Disabilities.
Roberts, Violet Cain – 1994
This manual for peer tutors on tutoring community college students was developed as part of the EASE (Equal Access for Students to Education and Experience) Project at seven community colleges in northeastern Minnesota. The manual provides a general overview of policies, benefits, and responsibilities related to peer tutoring. It then offers…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), College Students, Community Colleges
Davies, Peter – 2002
The key features of student achievement were examined at twelve sixth form colleges (SFCs) in the United Kingdom with an emphasis on strategies to maintain and improve performance. It was found that students at SFCs have on average higher prior attainment and suffer less deprivation than their counterparts in General Further Education and Tertiary…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Persistence
