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Using Optimal Combination of Teaching-Learning Methods (Open Book Assignment and Group Tutorials) as Revision Exercises to Improve Learning Outcome in Low Achievers in Biochemistry
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Rajappa, Medha; Bobby, Zachariah; Nandeesha, H.; Suryapriya, R.; Ragul, Anithasri; Yuvaraj, B.; Revathy, G.; Priyadarssini, M. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
Graduate medical students of India are taught Biochemistry by didactic lectures and they hardly get any opportunity to clarify their doubts and reinforce the concepts which they learn in these lectures. We used a combination of teaching-learning (T-L) methods (open book assignment followed by group tutorials) to study their efficacy in improving…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Assignments, Medical Students
A Quantitative Appraisal of an A-V-T Program
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Howard, Charles – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1974
Discusses the teaching of an experimental, individualized, lectureless course in chemistry with emphasis on programed instruction, audiovisual presentation, computerized examinations, and tutorial methods. Concludes that the program may prove superior in teaching of certain elementary chemical concepts to underprepared students. (CC)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Chemistry, College Science, Educational Media
Student-to-Student Tutoring in Selected English Language Skills at the Island Trees Junior High School, Levittown, New York.
Davis, Ronald James – 1967
This study attempted to determine whether tutoring could produce positive changes in certain language skills that would be reflected in English marks and standardized test results. Ninth grade boys and girls (120) were selected and arranged into paired experimental and control students. Both experimental and control pairs used prepared materials…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, English Instruction, Grade 9, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Reading Recovery: Myth and Reality.
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Wade, Barrie – British Journal of Special Education, 1992
This article describes Marie Clay's Reading Recovery program which provides one-half hour daily of individual instruction in reading to a school's lowest achievers. Data demonstrating the program's effectiveness and student skill maintenance are summarized. The approach is seen to be especially suitable for mainstreamed children with special…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies: Making Classrooms More Responsive to Diversity.
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Fuchs, Douglas; And Others – 1996
A classwide peer tutoring program in reading, implemented at 12 elementary and middle schools in three contiguous districts in the middle of a southern state, was evaluated for its effectiveness with three learner types: low achievers with disabilities, low achievers without disabilities, and learners of average achievement. Twenty teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
The Role Change Intervention: An Experiment in Cross-Age Tutoring.
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1975
This study of a role change intervention, a type of cross-age tutoring, was conducted as a "true" experiment. Forty tutors from four low-achieving ninth-grade general math classes and 68 tutees from three fourth-grade classes were randomly selected. The classes were in inner city schools in which about ninety percent of the students were black and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cross Age Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education