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Hanks, Janet; Heller, Frances – Inquiry, 1999
Through awareness of the needs of non-traditional students and careful tutor training, the staff of Virginia's New River Community College's (NRCC's) writing center assist students with both writing-related tasks and integration into academic life. Describes how NRCC's writing center aids its students and suggests techniques that should be used to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Nontraditional Students, Student Needs, Teaching Methods
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Jenkins, Joseph R.; Vadasy, Patricia F.; Firebaugh, Mary; Profilet, Cathy – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2000
Description of a tutoring program for struggling 1st grade readers focuses on use of Sound Partners, a program designed for non-teacher tutors. This program emphasizes basic phonological awareness and phonological reading skills. The article describes the program's theoretical ancestry, application, research outcomes, and obstacles/solutions…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1, Phonology
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Banks, Sheila; Bell, Elizabeth; Smits, Emely – Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2000
Data from 34 pairs of occupational therapy students and clinical preceptors following the implementation of Integration Tutorials and Seminars showed that the fieldwork learning environment influenced integration of academic and clinical knowledge. Preceptors influenced learning by planning learning processes and acting as co-learners. (JOW)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Integrated Curriculum
Keefer, Stephanie – ADE Bulletin, 2000
Discusses how the Humanities Out There (HOT) program has served as a resource library of curriculum models, of academic research, and of role models for students at Santa Ana High School. Notes how she, the teacher, had an important role in assisting the graduate and undergraduate students in developing their own teaching methodologies. (SC)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Resources, Higher Education, Outreach Programs
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Harp, Candace G.; Taylor, Sandra C.; Satzinger, John W. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1998
Interviews were conducted with 263 licensed users of training software, 68 of whom had used computer-based training (CBT), instructor-led training, and video tutorials. Videos were deemed the least useful. Instructor-led training had the most feedback and media richness, but CBT was an effective low-cost alternative. (SK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Feedback
Bollentin, Wendy Rickard – Educom Review, 1998
The Educom Medal honors individuals who have demonstrated that information technology improves undergraduate education. This article presents the viewpoints of the 1997 winners, examining fear of and resistance to technology in higher education, rigidity of the university system as an obstacle to bottom-up change, success of Web-based tutorials,…
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Educational Change, Fear, Higher Education
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Roe, Mary F.; Vukelich, Carol – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2001
Investigated the relationship between the goals of the AmericaReads program for K-3 students and tutors' adherence to these goals by examining artifacts from the tutoring sessions, including audiotapes, interviews with supervisors, and questionnaires completed by tutors. Found an inconsistent fidelity to tutoring expectations, which was explained…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
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Marchand-Martella, Nancy; Martella, Ronald C.; Bettis, Daniel F.; Blakely, Molly Riley – Reading and Writing Quarterly, 2004
The purpose of this investigation was to assess implementation aspects of a peer-delivered Corrective Reading Program (CRP), entitled "Project PALS" (Peer Assisted Learning System), in six area high schools. Specifically, high schools provided details on the following aspects of their programs: school and teachers, students receiving peer…
Descriptors: High Schools, Tutorial Programs, Corrective Reading, Reading Programs
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Attwood, Terri K.; Selimas, Ioannis; Buis, Rob; Altenburg, Ruud; Herzog, Robert; Ledent, Valerie; Ghita, Viorica; Fernandes, Pedro; Marques, Isabel; Brugman, Marc – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2005
EMBER was a European project aiming to develop bioinformatics teaching materials on the Web and CD-ROM to help address the recognised skills shortage in bioinformatics. The project grew out of pilot work on the development of an interactive web-based bioinformatics tutorial and the desire to repackage that resource with the help of a professional…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Internet, Educational Resources, Questionnaires
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Ling, Lim Hwee – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
The "Community of Inquiry" (COI) theoretical framework suggests that successful higher education experiences are supported by the presence and interaction of cognitive, social and teaching elements. Since the COI model has been widely used for examining quality of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) educational interactions, its…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Information Technology
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Koenig, Kathleen M.; Endorf, Robert J.; Braun, Gregory A. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2007
We present results from a comparative study of student understanding for students who attended recitation classes that used different teaching methods. Student volunteers from our introductory calculus-based physics course attended a special recitation class that was taught using one of four different teaching methods. A total of 272 students were…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Physics, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction
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Mitra, Dana L. – Education and Urban Society, 2006
This article analyzes efforts to increase parent involvement and student voice among Mexican American families who are low income at a large comprehensive high school. Although the parent-involvement effort ultimately failed, the students developed their own initiatives to help support Latino youth and their families, including the development of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, High Schools, Mexican Americans, Low Income Groups
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Kelleher, Constance; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris; Power, Thomas J. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2008
Although over 15 years have passed since Witt (1990) noted that no empirical evidence exists to support the contention that a collaborative approach to consultation leads to more positive outcomes than a hierarchical or expert driven approach, this issue generally remains unaddressed (Schulte & Osborne, 2003). While the literature documenting…
Descriptors: Intervention, Expertise, Consultants, Comparative Analysis
Allen, Anita Ford; Keene, Sylvia W. – 1995
The Delta Adult Literacy Council, Inc. (DALC) is a volunteer, nonprofit organization that seeks to recruit, assess, train, match, and support volunteer tutors and adult new readers. Its accomplishments, its history as a literacy organization, and its tutor training process are described. The process of student recruitment and support involves…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Venezky, Richard L., Comp. – 1995
This booklet presents tutoring strategies for use in the Read-Write-Now! Partners Tutoring Program, which assists school-age children, grades 1-6, in reading and writing. The booklet discusses general strategies, guidelines for effective tutoring, what to do during tutoring sessions, paired reading (including the basics and some "finer…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
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