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Brown, David M.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1986
A tutoring program for children with problems in learning to read used stickers as reinforcers in a token economy. (CL)
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reinforcement, Token Economy, Tutorial Programs
Peer reviewedLevenkron, Jeffrey; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1974
This article attempts to determine whether contingent access to a tutor would serve to motivate more positive academic behavior. Subjects were 16 fourth-graders. Results indicate that contingent application of individual tutoring did, indeed, increase academic performance in 15 of the students. (Author/HMV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Elementary School Students, Individual Instruction
Download full textTate, Deanna R. Wright – 1975
This study examined the relationship of tutorial enrichment of cognitive processes and reinforcement of lengthened response latency to measurements of impulsivity in 3- and 4-year-old children in a typical preschool setting. In a pretest-posttest control group design, 48 impulsive subjects (24 male and 24 female) were randomly assigned to tutorial…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo, Contingency Management
McLaughlin, John Thomas – 1975
This study investigated the relative effectiveness of books on reading achievement scores when earned by under-achieving readers in a student tutoring program. Fifty-three fifth grade students who were in below grade level classroom reading groups and who scored from six months to three years below grade level on at least one of two reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Positive Reinforcement, Reading Achievement
Conrad, Eva E. – 1975
This study provided a review of literature related to peer tutoring and investigated the effects of three variables on peer tutor and peer tutee performance. The variables were (1) the achievement level of the tutor, (2) brief tutor training in reinforcement and corrective feedback procedures, and (3) tutor expectancy about tutee performance. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Expectation, Feedback, Grade 2
Strong, Mary Winifred; Traynelis-Yurek, Elaine – 1983
Studied for its effects on the reading fluency of elementary school students, R. C. Heckleman's Neurological Impress Method has proved an inexpensive but effective method for motivating low achievement readers. Twenty-six subjects from grades 2 to 6 practiced reading in unison with a tutor during four 15-minute sessions a week. During the sessions…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Motivation Techniques, Reading Difficulties
Conrad, Eva – 1974
This brief illustrated booklet suggests procedures for the incorporation of planned peer tutoring into daily classroom rountines. This method of instruction has been found to be usable with a variety of academic tasks and is seen as one way to achieve individualization of instruction. The booklet focuses on the definition of peer tutoring;…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs
Strang, Harold R. – 1971
The effectiveness of one-to-one tutorial elements was tested in an automated reading program possessing objectives similar to those in the Instructional Objectives Exchange (IOX) and a self-contained reward system. Twenty-one sixth-grade retarded readers from poverty backgrounds constituted three groups equated on reading proficiency. Groups were…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth
Schrag, Judy A. – 1993
This document reviews information and research findings regarding various options to facilitate the full inclusion of students with disabilities. Principles of inclusive schools introduce the document. Three categories of strategies and interventions for working with students with disabilities are included: (1) program strategies, (2) classroom…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Consultation Programs, Cooperative Learning
