This pamphlet describes the key elements necessary for a successful schoolwide or classroom-based tutoring program, explores the benefits for tutors and tutees, and explains the steps that are necessary for the effective training of tutors. The first section looks at peer and cross-age tutoring, including terms and definitions and the benefits of…

This paper contains the scripts of five skits illustrating conspicuous errors on the part of writing tutors trying to assist undergraduate writers. Although the dialogue is fictitious and the situations slightly exaggerated, the skits delineate real problems that have been observed by the directors in actual tutoring sessions. The skits are…

This document consists of forms used by student support services at Wichita State University (Kansas). All forms are computerized using PageMaker 6.0. Many of the forms are intended to be completed on the computer with information then incorporated into the database of current students. Forms are grouped into eight categories: (1) student…

These papers on adult education in Australia are grouped into four parts: (1) articles concerning some directors of university extension and adult education; (2) a paper entitled "Who Killed the WEA (Workers Educational Association)--A Footnote to History"; (3) two papers called respectively "Sir Keith Hancock--A Tribute from a…

Describes a non-credit tutorial course held for engineering students to improve their skill in problem solving. In the group sessions, each student writes his approach to a given problem on a transparency; the class then analyzes the various approaches while viewing them on overhead projectors. (MLH)

A description of the focus and objectives of Project B.E.A.M. ("Behavioral Evolvement Through Achievement Management"), which utilized a combination of structured academic success through intensive tutoring and weekly counseling or "rap" sessions, using inexperienced college students from the same racial group as the children taught. Dramatic…

Following up on the work of a task force that studied the dropout problem in the Los Angeles Unified School District and developed recommendations for addressing that problem, this report describes current dropout prevention efforts and proposals for expansion and presents recommendations for new approaches. Six major categories of programs are…

This Digest points out characteristics of quality computer software for children, describes different kinds of software, and suggests ways to get software for preview. The need to consider the purpose for which the software is to be used and the degree to which the software meets its stated goals is noted. Desirable software characteristics and…

The purpose of a peer tutoring program is to assist those students who require ongoing and formal instruction in a subject area. If effectively run, it can have an impact on retention. There are five areas that need to be addressed when initiating a peer tutor program: (1) organization and funding; (2) supervision; (3) tutor training; (4) tutor…

The Austin Independent School District (AISD) requires that all graduates have skills in reading and mathematics equivalent to a ninth-grade level or above (based on scores on the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills). Of the 3,152 high school graduates in 1983-84, the percentage who met AISD's minimum competency requirement was 91 percent in reading,…

A description is provided of Los Angeles Valley College's Life Science Learning Center (LSLC), which provides: (1) a resource center addressed to the individualized learning needs of students served by the Biology Department; (2) a learning environment enabling students to proceed in self-paced, activity-centered, concept-oriented experiences in…

The present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of two different but related treatments (feedback and self charting) which are often found in behavioral reading programs but which are usually not a formal part of other tutoring methods. (Author/RK)

This book is for the use of teachers, parents, and administrators who are planning to initiate a learning-by-tutoring project in their schools. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the…

Over its 4-year history the formal tutorial program for disadvantaged first-year medical students at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, has become successful in preparing students to compete scholastically. This article assesses its effect, particularly the attitudes of students (positive), administration (supportive), and faculty…

The college of education at a midwestern university has designed a program for training senior citizen volunteers to tutor elementary school students in reading and language arts. Development of the Time Of Our Lives for Service (T. O. O. L. S.) program included establishing goals and objectives for the program that were subject to administrative…