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Lietz, Petra – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1996
Results from 291 first-year Australian college students with learning and writing difficulties (language minorities or students from other countries) suggest a direct effect of those difficulties on performance in first-year biology. College language and learning services that address areas in which students recognize their difficulties may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Piper, Jadwiga – Learning Assistance Review, 2001
Discusses the benefits tutors gain from the tutoring experience, some of which--deemed "silent benefits"--include personal and professional growth, and even significant changes in future careers. Examines effects of tutoring job on three outstanding tutors, all of whom speak English as a second language. (NB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student), Educational Assessment
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Cobb, Jeanne B. – Reading Horizons, 2001
Describes a program in which preservice teachers served as tutors for at-risk first, second, and third graders in a tutorial model incorporating play and phonological awareness activities using puppets and comprehension strategy instruction using manipulatives. Finds that the program improved reading achievement for children at the first grade…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy
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Schmitz, Dawn M.; Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke – Research Strategies, 2005
The Global News VILLAGE (Virtual Information Literacy Learning and Growing Environment) is an online tutorial developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to help undergraduates learn how to use the library to find current information about global events and issues. Supporting the interdisciplinary Global Studies curriculum, the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Tutorial Programs, Information Literacy, Programmed Tutoring
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Hassler, Abby – Inquiry, 2005
The author details a Perkins Grant-funded project of the Medical Education Center at Northern Virginia Community College that is designed to increase student retention by teaching students to identify and to use their learning style preference(s). (Contains 1 chart.)
Descriptors: Medical Education, Cognitive Style, Study Skills, School Holding Power
Fleming, Martha H. – School Community Journal, 2005
Research shows that after-school programs with structured literacy components can contribute positively to children's success in school, improvement in their reading and also in general social skills, and that successful programs involve partnerships with the community and continually expanding outreach to parents and caregivers. This program…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Caregivers, After School Programs, Enrichment
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Ukpo, Eugenia Onwu – Open Learning, 2006
This paper reports on a research study that draws on the perceptions of students, tutors, field centre coordinators and central management to evaluate the support services provided to students in the National Teachers' Institute's distance teacher training programme. Within a conceptual framework that built upon models of teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Questionnaires
Ainsworth, Robert G. – 1995
Tutoring is recommended as one of several possible ways to help keep students in school. This report is based on a literature review and conversations with researchers, educators, and students. In spite of recent reductions in dropout rates, they remain high, especially in large urban schools. An extensive body of literature supports the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, High School Students, High Schools
Curry, Janice; And Others – 1995
Reading Recovery is an early intervention program designed to reach first-grade students who are having the most trouble learning to read. Students meet daily with specially trained teachers for an average of 12 to 20 weeks. Reading Recovery began in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District in 1992-93. In 1993-94, Reading Recovery served 268…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project investigating the effectiveness of class-wide peer mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of repeated reading, in which pairs of students…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Goore, Selma – 1994
This practicum designed and implemented a staff training process to help lead teachers in a school-age child care setting improve their supervisory skills and responsibilities in order to improve program practices. The coaching project covered three stages: preparation for coaching, the coaching sessions, and evaluation of the project. Lead…
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Leadership
Barboza, Vicki Carter – 1994
This document reports on a materials development project created for volunteer tutors in the English-In-Action (EIA) program of the Bechtel International Center at Stanford University. EIA provides foreign students, visiting scholars, and their spouses with the opportunity to improve their English language skills in an informal, conversational…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Activities, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Thomas, Randy Ann – 1994
A study was conducted of three New Hampshire library literacy tutorial programs to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the adult tutorial programs, staff development, and training needs, and the role of the public library in promoting adult literacy services. Data were gathered through a two-phase process begun in October 1993. A survey was…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Library Role
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1991
This book provides the college student with tips and practical strategies for studying and time management. The text is organized into eight sections with the first, "Work Smarter, Not Harder," exploring how to organize and streamline a morning routine so as to get off to a smoother start each day. The second section, "Date, Time, Place",…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Counseling, Higher Education
Topping, Keith – 1988
A practical guide is presented to peer tutoring for teachers and others with an interest in promoting cooperative learning. It includes a guide to organizing peer tutoring, as well as a review of research on the effects of peer tutoring, and evidence for social and academic gains for the student and the tutor. The perspective is international,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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