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Hudson, Glyniss A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This case study explored the perception of online tutorials by habitually absent students with familial or socioeconomic circumstances. Researched literature confirmed a link between absenteeism, and academic achievement. Research Questions were designed to determine (a) student perception of online tutorials, and (b) motivation to achieve…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Attendance Patterns, Tutorial Programs, Educational Technology
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Bregvadze, Tamar – International Education Studies, 2012
During the past decade Georgia has received strong international support for education reform, and it represents an interesting case by which the effectiveness of particular interventions in the region can be assessed. Most attempts to analyse progress within the system have so far been concentrated on two aspects of formal education: private and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Supplementary Education
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Falik, Louis H.; Wexler, Sandra – Urban Education, 1971
This paper is an evaluation of the Bridging-The-Gap Program," Booker T. Washington Community Center, San Francisco, California. The evaluation was independently contracted and carried out. (Authors/JM)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary School Students, Home Visits, Parent Attitudes
Weaver, Roy A.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
Examines the Home Tutorial Program in the San Fernando Valley of California in the areas of organization, parent attitudes, learning environment, achievement, and socialization. Compare the home program with the Los Angeles Unified School District. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Costs, Educational Environment, Intermediate Grades
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Rice, Mabel L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Suggests that the content and presentation formats of "Sesame Street" are well suited to preschoolers' vocabulary development, independently of parent education, family size, child gender, and parental attitudes. Findings also suggest the feasibility of tutorial uses of the video medium. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Demography, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Attitudes
Zenanko, Marsha A; Zenanko, Mike – 1996
The Teaching/Learning Center (T/LC) at the Jacksonville State University College of Education (Alabama) is Level 2 in a 5-level teacher education program that is intended to build student competency through reflection and revision of the student's teaching practices. T/LC is a practicum laboratory for preservice teachers and an on-campus,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Outreach Programs, Parent Attitudes
Radin, Norma – 1968
In an early education program, 100 disadvantaged 4-year-olds (50 Negroes and 50 whites) attend classes one-half day, four days a week, from October through June. A teacher visits each child's home every other week to conduct a tutorial session lasting 1 1/2 hours. Three objectives of the program are (1) to develop a preschool curriculum based on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Home Visits
Badger, Earladeen D. – 1969
This study hypothesized that mothers from a low socioeconomic area could be trained by teachers to implement an infant tutorial program using their 1- to 2-year-old children as subjects. The 20 mothers recruited were ADC recipients or met the OEO poverty definition. Mothers agreed to attend a 2 hour weekly class to learn teaching techniques to be…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Infants
Ananda, Nandang; And Others – 1997
There is no lack of debate regarding year-round schooling. Emotions run high when school districts tamper with the "traditional" agrarian school calendar and adapt a year-round calendar. This study examines one program in a multi-track year-round elementary school, a tutoring program delivered during the students' intersession. Through…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Parent Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, School Schedules
Davies, Scott; Aurini, Janice; Quirke, Linda – Education Canada, 2002
While provincial governments in Canada are increasingly regulating public schools in the name of accountability, more parents are choosing unregulated tutoring businesses or "new sector" private schools. Reasons include a competitive edge, an emphasis on cognitive development, a more personalized environment due to small teacher-student…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
In a study to determine whether or not culturally deprived children develop at progressively greater deficits in intellectual functioning during the ages of 15 months to 3 years, tutors provided 15-month-old infants with intellectual and verbal stimulation one hour daily, five times a week until they were 36 months old. The subjects consisted of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Individual Development, Infants
Wofford, Joan; Ross, Joanne – 1973
The Parkway Program is the prototype school-without-walls created by the School District of Philadelphia in 1967. The program presently consists of four units of approximately 200 students (chosen by lottery from throughout the city), ten teachers, ten to 12 interns, and a Unit Head and administrative assistant housed in four separate non-school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration
Thurlow, Martha L.; And Others – 1989
Social validity data were collected for three educational interventions designed to increase the academic engaged time of elementary special education students: (1) a reading tutorial intervention, (2) a special education consultation intervention, and (3) a home-based consultation intervention. A total of 29 students, 14 parents, 21 teachers, and…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Elementary Education, Home Programs, Mild Disabilities
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This document describes three cross-grade tutoring projects developed, with the learning and motivation of the tutor in mind, as a means of strengthening the basic skills of secondary school students through a "learning by teaching" program. The "Learning-Tutoring Cycle" project involves the preparation of curriculum modules by secondary school…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Wenthold, Mireya Bernal-Greco – 1984
A study investigated the effectiveness of general study skill enhancement on the learning of a second language. Subjects were high school students deficient in study skills. They were enrolled in an after-school cooperative study skill tutorial program. After diagnostic screening, students completed the intensive tutorial program using selected…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance Patterns, High School Students, High Schools
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