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Lynn, David Reimer – School Counselor, 1986
Describes a high school peer-helping program that involves students in implementing the educational, social, and philosophical goals of the school. The program has three major functions: peer tutoring, peer counseling, and articulation. (ABB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Guidance Programs, Helping Relationship, High School Students
Fields, Cheryl M. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
A successful California engineering program helps minority students graduate from college by providing a strong student network, extensive tutoring and counseling, and direct faculty involvement. (MSE)
Descriptors: Blacks, Counseling Services, Engineering Education, Equal Education
Webb, Michael – Equity and Choice, 1988
Students can benefit from structured in-school helping relationships in which peers assume formal teaching roles as tutors. Both the student helper and the student learner benefit from peer tutoring. Guidelines for developing effective peer tutoring programs are provided. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Influence, Peer Teaching

Heward, William L.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1986
Within the context of an ongoing classwide peer tutoring system for sight words, a training program was conducted to teach first-grade peer tutors to provide verbal praise for correct responses on an intermittent schedule. After training, the four observed tutors successfully delivered praise on the desired schedule. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Peer Teaching, Positive Reinforcement

Anderson, Ora Sterling; Smith, Laura J. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Describes a college developmental reading laboratory model using peer tutors to provide training in comprehension study skills. Reports the results of a study evaluating the impact of training on student performance from the perspective of the participants. (MM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Models, Peer Teaching
Ferguson, Laura – Equity and Choice, 1986
Bilingual education and Mark's Meadow Laboratory School involves the use of adult tutors who work with non-English-speaking children within one of two international classrooms. The tutors serve not only as teachers but as psychological supports for children undergoing both linguistic and cultural adjustment. (GC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers, Elementary Education

Scruggs, 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

Walter, Timothy; Smith, Donald E. P. – Educational Record, 1986
The University of Michigan's academic support program helps student athletes graduate. Intense, costly instructional services are provided during the first two years and result in little money needing to be spent later on. A description of the support program for at-risk students is provided. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Athletes, College Students

Paul, Ross – Community Services Catalyst, 1986
Reviews the major successes and failures of Athabasca University's efforts to extend access to a credible and academically sound university education to adult Canadians, largely through home-study packages. Discusses issues including rural/urban student differences, the role of tutors, adult student needs, student preparedness, and organizational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Delivery Systems

Betchart, Nancy S.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1984
A group of first-year medical students who demonstrated inadequate interviewing skills in a test with proven reliability and validity were identified. The usefulness of individualized tutorials as a means of helping them improve their skills was assessed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Interviews

Morris, Darrell – Reading Psychology, 1986
Discusses three principles for use by volunteer tutors to use in monitoring children's oral reading: (1) maintaining an adequate pace in the lesson, (2) helping students make sense of what they read, and (3) helping the student to read what is actually on the page. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Feedback, Listening Skills, Oral Reading
Brown, Jane; Wallace, John – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1984
Describes "Bulletin Board" software program, which permits individuals or student groups to write, read, and/or evaluate student and instructor-generated multiple-choice and essay questions and to write and read news items. The program thus engages students more deeply in active learning, assessing course material, and providing peer…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Design, Evaluative Thinking
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Planning and Evaluation Service. – 2001
Research has shown that well-designed tutoring programs that use volunteers and other nonprofessionals as tutors can be effective in improving children's reading skills. Students with below-average reading skills who are tutored by volunteers show significant gains in reading skills when compared with similar students who do not receive tutoring…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Peer Teaching
Hofmeister, Alan – Educational Technology, 1973
The findings from the application of audio-tutorial programing in three curriculum areas with three groups of exceptional children are reported. The findings suggest that audio-tutorial programing has qualities capable of meeting some of the instructional needs of exceptional children. (Author)
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Autoinstructional Aids, Exceptional Child Education, Exceptional Persons
Reading Newsreport, 1971
Describes a tutoring program, Project Home With Books," in which volunteers from business and industry work individually with remedial readers in inner city schools. Teachers, tutors, and students have judged the program successful. (VJ)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Inner City, Reading Difficulties