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Peer reviewedDevlin, Frank – Writing Center Journal, 1996
Examines two studies: one that shows that competent to highly competent writers find writing centers beneficial, and the other that shows that faculty continue to think of writing centers as suited to remedial students and surface level corrections. Attempts to glean from these studies important information that could act as a corrective to all…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation, Remedial Instruction
Peer reviewedHeath, David A.; And Others – Journal of Optometric Education, 1989
A study compared the perceptions of remedial optometry students concerning themselves, cognitive strategies used in studying, the studying and evaluation processes, and study habits with their tutors' perceptions. Two predominant problems emerged: the extent of responsibility of the student in academic difficulty and discrepancies in tutor/tutee…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Optometry, Professional Education
Peer reviewedOlson, Gary A. – Liberal Education, 1981
The attitudes of teachers referring students to writing centers for mandatory instruction may weaken the center's ability to provide support to the students who need it most. Training tutors to provide a pleasant learning environment can increase the program's effectiveness. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Learning Centers (Classroom), Liberal Arts
Peer reviewedBlackbourn, Vonda A.; Blackbourn, J. M. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
An adolescent with moderate mental disabilities tutored a seven year old in arithmetic. The peer tutoring program increased the mathematics performance of the first grader, successfully integrated the adolescent into a more typical classroom environment, improved the accuracy of the tutor's mathematics performance, and resulted in changes in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1
Peer reviewedMaxwell, Martha – Learning Assistance Review, 1997
States that for faculty to make effective referrals to academic support programs, they should be knowledgeable about services and describe them to students in their classes early in the term, they must endorse the use of the service and repeatedly encourage students to attend, and they must make their referrals personal. (VWC)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Reflective Teaching, Remedial Instruction
Download full textAlbuquerque Public Schools, NM. Planning, Research and Accountability. – 1987
Albuquerque (New Mexico) public schools used a Title IV Part A grant to improve academic and behavioral functioning of American Indian elementary and secondary school students. The program's focus was tutoring provided to 899 Indian students from Canoncito Navajo Reservation, the Isleta Pueblo, and the city. A project coordinator, a resource…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, American Indians, Elementary Secondary Education
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. Planning, Research and Accountability. – 1986
Public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, used a Title IV Part A grant to assist American Indian elementary and secondary school students in receiving passing grades and improving school-related behaviors. Canoncito Navajo Reservation, the Isleta Pueblo, and urban Indian students in Albuquerque participated in the program. Personnel consisted of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, American Indians, Elementary Secondary Education
Milwaukee Area Technical Coll., WI. – 1994
Instructors from two campuses of Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) in Wisconsin were asked to judge the effectiveness of two integrated learning systems (ILS): the Computer Systems Resource (CSR) and Foundations for Success (FFS) systems, both of which are designed to provide adult learners with remedial instruction in reading, writing, and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Courseware, Educational Media, Instructional Material Evaluation
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: methods for teaching students of English as a second language and remedial students in freshmen composition courses; Maryland community college English teachers' backgrounds and attitudes…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Compensatory Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Practices
