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Brankin, Gayle P.; And Others – 1991
This manual for literacy tutors focuses on interactional processes between the tutor and adult student (including those with disabilities). Six processes are stressed throughout: (1) getting to know the learner, (2) participatory assessment, (3) learner-directed goal development, (4) gathering and developing teaching resources, (5) implementing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1991
This document provides an overview of the nature of nine strategies for providing instructional support services and the advantages, disadvantages, and role of Chapter 1, Pupils with Special Education Needs (PSEN), and Pupils with Compensatory Education Needs (PCEN) funds in each. The strategies are: (1) the pull-out approach; (2) the in-class…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Responsibility, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
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Poblete, Patricia – 1990
This report describes a 3-year project (1987-1990) implemented to assist migrant families and their children in transition to public school kindergarten and developmental kindergarten classes. The project served 30 children and 24 families in Ft. Pierce, Florida, approximately 75 percent of whom were Hispanic and 25 percent were Haitian. Goals…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Groups, Kindergarten, Migrant Education
Nagarkatte, Umesh P.; Nagarkatte, Shailaja U. – 1991
IBM LinkWay is an example of a hypertext and hypermedia authoring system. This paper summarizes a workshop presentation that demonstrates how to create a mathematics tutorial using LinkWay. An introduction discusses the guidelines for the tutorial. The guidelines consider the presentation of questions, help features for the students, feedback,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Elementary Education, Hypermedia
Day, Janet D. – 1993
A study described the amount of usage and structure of cross-age reading tutoring programs. A survey was sent to 68 schools in northwest Ohio to determine percentage and ranges of usage. Results indicated that less than 22% of the 42 elementary schools that responded to the survey used a cross-age tutoring program. Of the programs in place, less…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
Burts, Maureen E. – 1990
This practicum report describes a staff development program that was designed to implement a peer tutoring program in which nonhandicapped students instructed three trainable mentally handicapped peers in a regular high-school setting. The program was implemented to increase the achievement of handicapped students in basic academic skills that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, High Schools, Individualized Instruction
Corbett, Albert T.; Anderson, John R. – 1991
This study manipulated the timing and control of error feedback in problem solving and examined their effects on skill acquisition by 40 undergraduate students learning to program in the computer language Lisp under four error feedback conditions. These four conditions included two types of symbol-by-symbol feedback that vary in content, a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Feedback, Higher Education
Lanier, Cynthia C. – 1991
This paper describes a program in which community members (retired citizens, parents, and others) provided tutorial services over a 12-week period to five learning disabled primary grade students in a resource room program. Comparison of pretest and posttest results showed a greater than 20 percent increase in reading scores. Weekly spelling test…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education, Problem Solving
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Herrmann, Thom – 1982
The use of student proctors or tutors for a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) has been considered essential; however, the cost of tutorial training programs may be prohibitive. In an attempt to develop an equivalent but less expensive alternative, students (N=219) participated in an evaluation of the use of a VAX computer system as a…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education
Zaritsky, Joyce Ship – 1989
In 1988, a survey was conducted to determine the characteristics and extent of peer tutoring programs at two- and four-year colleges in New York. Data were also collected on supplemental instruction, a variant of peer tutoring in which the peer tutor works closely with a faculty member to help students in identified high-risk courses. Of the 270…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Peer Teaching, Postsecondary Education
Johnson, Christine; Johnson, Ray Lee – 1988
The Valued Youth Partnership of San Antonio (VYP) has been dramatically successful in improving educational opportunities for the highest risk students. In school districts with dropout rates of over 40%, the highest risk students over a 4-year period averaged dropout rates of 2.5%. This booklet provides program results for VYP for the period 1984…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1989
This document comprises the first volume of a three-volume study, mandated by the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, on domestic and foreign tutoring programs for disadvantaged elementary and secondary students that involve college students. This volume summarizes the results of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Noordhoorn, Lennie – 1990
The AVID program, available at 66 sites in San Diego County (California), prepares students from groups underrepresented in postsecondary education for 4-year college eligibility. Secondary-level students participating in the program are enrolled in a college preparatory sequence of courses and one section of AVID, in which tutor-led study groups…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Bound Students, College Preparation, Cooperative Learning
Carnine, Douglas W. – 1987
This report summarizes a series of eight research studies related to the use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with mildly handicapped students at the junior high or high school level. Through videodisc and CAI the studies isolated the effects of the following design variables: (1) review cycles; (2) size of teaching sets; (3) explicit…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Drills (Practice), Educational Technology, Instructional Design
Ronacher, Karl; And Others – 1990
The Required Academic Proficiency (RAP) program was established by the Houston (Texas) Independent School District to reduce and remediate the academic failure of students. The purpose of the RAP program was twofold: (1) to provide supplemental instruction to students identified as being at risk of failing academic subjects; and (2) to provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, English (Second Language)
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