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Peer reviewedScruggs, Thomas E.; Osguthorpe, Russell T. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Compared cross-age and peer tutoring interventions conducted within special education settings. In Experiment 1, learning disabled (LD) and behaviorally disordered (BD) students tutored younger LD and BD students. In Experiment 2, same-age LD and BD students alternated tutor and tutee roles. In both experiments, tutors and tutees exhibited…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedChandler, Theodore A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Proposes a peer-teaching-peer strategy that utilizes the low-achieving External as the tutor, a reversal of the usual procedure. The assumption is that the External must experience and perceive personal control over another child in order to begin orientation toward a more internal outlook. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Psychology, Locus of Control
