Reviews ERIC materials dealing with effective tutoring programs. (FL)

The DC Reads program was first implemented during the 1997-1998 school year as a partnership among the Corporation for National Service; District of Columbia Public Schools; Communities in Schools (CIS), a nonprofit corporation; and six local universities, with Georgetown University acting as lead. During the 1998-1999 school year, it expanded to…

Created to offer staff development to local school districts and instructors of preservice teachers in Texas, this guide explains how to design a successful intervention program that provides short-term, intensive, one-on-one instruction for children who need help with reading and writing. In these materials, participants will learn about…

This study explores computer-meditated tutoring and a traditional tutoring model that is carried out on a face-to-face basis and investigates whether there is a difference in high school students' mathematics achievement. In this study, there was no statistically significant difference between the face-to-face and the computer-mediated tutored…

Private tutoring is a phenomenon that has escaped the attention of researchers, educational planners, and decision makers. Very little is known about its scope, scale, and effects on pupils' achievement and equality of opportunities. Because of its size in a number of countries, and due to it nature--that of a private service oriented at improving…

Developed for the America Reads initiative, this paper presents the LEARNS (Linking Education and America Reads through National Service) Literacy Assessment Profile (LLAP), a student assessment system that is designed to improve providers' ability to deliver high quality literacy programs to students, assess students' literacy understanding, set…

A study implemented and evaluated the Book Buddies model using National Service volunteers as tutors for high-risk first-grade students in a high-poverty urban setting. Using a design with a randomly assigned control group, results show that tutoring sessions produced clear effects. Children who received 40 Book Buddies lessons significantly…

A school psychologist briefly describes the use of academic coaching with gifted students who are underperforming possibly because of a disability such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Coaches are urged to first, review the student's assessment data; second, determine the student's ability to benefit from coaching; third, determine…

Reviews several programs using students as tutors of younger students. Also lists sources of materials for use in such programs. (TO)

Author provides a critical appraisal of the Russell Report and accents cooperation between statutory and voluntary bodies. (RK)

A course is described in which the traditional grading system, lecturing, laboratory work, and major tests are deleted. (DF)

In New Haven, Connecticut, community parent tutors in reading help inner city students with reading problems and involve the previously unreachable'' parents who, it has been found, are necessary to reinforce reading skills at home. (Author/JN)

Describes a tutorial method of individualized, programmed reading instruction that doesn't require and sophisticated materials for its implementation. (AN)

Criticizes a thematic approach to English instruction advocated by J. R. Osgerby Yin English in a College of Education: A New Approach," The Use of English," vol. 21, no. 4 (Summer 1970), pp. 306-16, 321I on the basis that such an approach leads students away from an experience of the literature itself and into the realms of sociology…