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Moran, Patrick J. – Journal of Reading, 1976
Presents guidelines for training and supervision in junior college tutoring programs designed to improve reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs

Hanks, Janet; Heller, Frances – Inquiry, 1999
Through awareness of the needs of non-traditional students and careful tutor training, the staff of Virginia's New River Community College's (NRCC's) writing center assist students with both writing-related tasks and integration into academic life. Describes how NRCC's writing center aids its students and suggests techniques that should be used to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Nontraditional Students, Student Needs, Teaching Methods
Starks, Gretchen – 1984
The purpose of a peer tutoring program is to assist those students who require ongoing and formal instruction in a subject area. If effectively run, it can have an impact on retention. There are five areas that need to be addressed when initiating a peer tutor program: (1) organization and funding; (2) supervision; (3) tutor training; (4) tutor…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Individual Instruction, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions
Orsborn, Karen J. – Journal of Business Education, 1974
Students test their knowledge of accounting theory by setting up a small business and following through its total development by use of the accounting practice sets. (BP)
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Business Skills, Guidelines
MacDonald, Ross B. – 1986
These three papers present an organizational framework, an evaluation plan, and a training plan for an integrated cross-curricular tutorial program at Los Medanos College. First, the position paper establishes a standing committee to oversee the Second Generation Tutoring Program and the policies under which the program operates. It focuses on the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Program Development, Program Effectiveness

Duke, Charles R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1980
Advocates individualizing remedial writing courses at the college level and describes three programs that emphasize individual placement, focus on student writing rather than on workbook materials, and offer peer tutoring. (MKM)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions
Misick, Jennifer; Santa Rita, Emilio – 1996
In the Student Development Tutoring Model (SDTM), tutors engage students with content in such a way as to both increase their understanding of content as well as their ability to use learning strategies independently in the future. To develop and evaluate a procedure for preparing tutors to use behaviors consistent with the SDTM, New York's Bronx…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Individual Instruction
Fink, Diana; Carrasquillo, Carmen – 1994
Several retention strategies have been developed at Miramar College in San Diego, California, to reduce attrition and enhance institutional effectiveness. One of these, the PLACe tutorial center, is dedicated to empowering students to attain educational success. In spring 1992, developmental English students who did not use the PLACe Center had a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness
Thot, Iris Delores – 1999
These "tips" on how to tutor a student in a foreign language include: (1) Get to know the student, which class he or she is in and how the instruction is conducted; (2) Be a good listener, a skill that, like the first tip, is essential in lowering a student's affective filters; (3) Be patient--instruction may require many repetitions;…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Teachers
Rinnander, Elizabeth; Spinelli, Maria-Lydia – 1987
This handbook describes Los Angeles Pierce College's (LAPC's) English Skills Tutorial Package, which seeks to identify specific areas of strength and weakness in students' language proficiency and to strengthen those specific areas through discrete and holistic approaches and, sometimes, conscious coaching. Following introductory comments about…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Language Skills

Mott, Charles J. – Journal of Geological Education, 1980
Describes the audiotutorial program in earth science at St. Petersburg Junior College's Clearwater Campus started ten years ago. Although initial expenses were considered high, they are now equivalent to those of traditional delivery systems, and students come away with better grades and more positive attitudes. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Science, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Matthews, Dorothy, Ed. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1980
The focus of this journal edition is remedial writing instruction in high school and college. Articles in the journal are: "The Remedial Student is Different," by Karl K. Taylor; "Writing Apprehension: (I) Combating Fear of Failure," by Donna K. Gorrell; "Writing Apprehension: (II) Where Does Fear of Writing Come…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Basic Skills, College Students, Developmental Programs
Kangas, Jon – 1993
In fall 1992, a study was performed at Evergreen Valley College, in San Jose, California, to determine whether the presence of full-time instructional aides and part-time matriculation aides in four specific courses (English 321, 322, 330, and Math 12) led to increases in student success. Success was defined as receipt of a grade of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College English, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
Brantley, Jerry; And Others – 1981
The Basic Skills Program described in this report was developed by Macomb County Community College (MCCC) as a semester-long pre-vocational program for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) students. Following introductory material, Part I presents a general review of postsecondary developmental education programs for…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Planning, Community Colleges, Counseling
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1981
Drawing upon the responses of 268 instructors of randomly selected class sections offered at the Los Angeles Community College District during Fall 1980, this paper assesses the role of the faculty in remedying the underrepresentation of women, minorities, and the handicapped in science education. The paper first summarizes probable causes of this…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Basic Skills, Class Activities, College Faculty
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