This study of 8 elementary school teachers implementing classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) with 198 pupils found that teachers reached training criteria in approximately 90 minutes; teachers continued to use CWPT accurately without consultative assistance; 4 teachers extended CWPT's use to nontrained content areas; and positive academic and consumer…

Fourteen mildly handicapped (learning-disabled or behavior-disordered) and 36 nondisabled students in grade 10 social studies classrooms participated in a classwide peer tutoring program. Performance on weekly tests was significantly improved; 60 percent of all students earned "A" grades, and failing grades were virtually eliminated. (Author/JDD)

The study examined the effects of classwide peer tutoring (involving team assignment, a game format, contingent point rewards, and immediate error correction) on the academic performance of mildly handicapped and nondisabled students (n=91) in ninth- and tenth-grade math classes. Group and individual results indicated significant improvement in…