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Making Peer Tutoring Work.
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Jenkins, Joseph R.; Jenkins, Linda M. – Educational Leadership, 1987
The Lake Washington School District (WA) has developed a successful peer tutoring program for elementary and secondary students. Identifies the characteristics of successful tutoring programs, how to start a program, recruitment and scheduling needs, selection of tutors and learners, and how to maintain tutor involvement. Includes a table and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods
Big Friend: A Tutorial Program
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Baker, Verna Keene – Educational Leadership, 1973
Describes a tutorial program in which an older student, 9-13 years of age, teams with a younger student, 5-8 years of age, in order to meet the needs of one or both members of the team. (GB)
Descriptors: Individualized Programs, Student Development, Student Experience, Student Participation
Large Scale Unbudgeted Elementary School Tutorial Programs
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McCuaig, Susannah M. – Educational Leadership, 1975
Descriptors: Education Courses, Elementary Education, Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs
Building on Cultural Strengths: A Route to Academic Achievement.
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Holliday, Frances B.; Edwards, Carole – Educational Leadership, 1978
A Chicago project used the concept of the extended Black family and the interdependence that exists within that relationship to develop a peer-group/cross-age tutoring program as a strategy for teaching and/or reinforcing reading skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Students, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education
Learning From and With Others
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Beeler, A. J. – Educational Leadership, 1972
Describes a number of experimental programs at all levels of the Louisville, Kentucky public school system. (AN)
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Experimental Programs, High Schools, Junior High Schools
Synthesis of Research on the Effects of Tutoring.
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Cohen, Peter A.; Kulik, James A. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Students participating in tutorial programs--both as tutors and tutees--show greater cognitive and attitudinal gains than do students who are not involved in such programs. However the common belief that tutorial programs greatly enhance participants' self-esteem appears to be groundless. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching