The final report describes the Winnebago (Nebraska) Behavior Analysis Program to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate services and strategies for improving the educational services to K-12 handicapped students in small, rural school districts. The program has four major components: the Curriculum Management System (to assist in assessing…

Eight New Jersey State colleges which shared essentially the same goals and offered similar financial aid packages were studied in order to determine the relationship between persistence rates of disadvantaged students in opportunity programs and the role of faculty in such programs. Student data were provided by New Jersey's Equal Opportunity…

A report is given of the development in Australia of telephone tutorials for small group instruction of isolated students with and without the assistance of loudspeaking telephones. The following topics are covered: (1) why use telephone tutorials; (2) location of telephone tutorial centers; (3) equipment; (4) unit and staff selection; (5) pilot…

This report of the evaluation of the Office of Instructional Resources Teaching Center at the University of Florida describes an approach to the problem of assessing an instructional program developed for students who do not meet the admission requirements of the state university system. The program evaluation design not only provides a model to…

This survey was undertaken in order to assess the nature of tutoring projects that have been implemented in schools, particularly in urban schools. It was also an attempt to locate examples of a particular kind of tutoring project, one designed primarily to promote learning in the tutors. This objective is based on the assumption that secondary…

Information on the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), which provides supportive services and financial aid to New York State residents attending colleges and universities in New York State is presented. Students eligible for HEOP will generally rank low on such traditional measures of collegiate admissions as the Standard Aptitude Test…

Some common problems faced by administrators developing tutoring programs in postsecondary education institutions--development of program goals, how to select and train tutors, and evaluating and monitoring program effectiveness--are addressed in this booklet. In the first of four sections, eight articles address the purpose and design of various…

The Ford Foundation funded an experimental program at the University of Denver College of Law in the summer of 1967 to prepare Spanish-American college graduates to enter law school, the ultimate purpose being to increase the number of Spanish-American lawyers in the Rocky Mountain area. Twenty student participants were selected on the basis of…

Recognizing that weaknesses in teacher education programs stem partly from the isolation of the school of education from both the liberal arts and the public schools, Northwestern University designed a program to make teacher preparation an all-university responsibility, to strengthen academic preparation, and to increase the relevance of…

This report provides a comprehensive overview of New York State post-secondary opportunity programs for the educationally and economically disadvantaged during the year 1974-75 and includes the Regents comments and recommendations. The purpose of opportunity programs is to prepare students who have had poor academic preparation for a successful…

Peer tutoring and other innovative uses of students in teaching roles have received considerable attention because of the academic and social gains which can be observed among participating children. Teachers who want to try peer tutoring often encounter difficulty in devising workable programs for their own classrooms, however, because most…

To achieve economy in the teaching of earth sciences, an audiovisual-tutorial program was designed in the pattern of a simulated field trip. Twelve weekly exercises combining slides, filmstrips, and audiotapes were produced and tested on an experimental group of 50 students, who also received one lecture a week. The program was evaluated and…

The BASIC Instructional Program (BIP) is an interactive problem-solving laboratory that offers tutorial assistance to students solving introductory programing problems in the BASIC language. After a brief review of the rationale and origins of the BIP instructional system, the design and implementation of BIP's curriculum information network are…

The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…

The final report describes "Project Decision", an exemplary program designed and implemented by the Waukesha County Technical Institute (WCTI) for the 17 high schools in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. "Career libraries" were established in each high school, with an audiovisual-tutorial device and 29 filmstrips providing…