This ESEA Title 3 project provided tutoring assistance to fourth, seventh, and 10th grade students who were underachievers in reading and/or writing as determined by a correlation of students' test results on the California Test of Mental Maturity and the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP). Three groups of students were randomly…

Fourteen mildly handicapped (learning-disabled or behavior-disordered) and 36 nondisabled students in grade 10 social studies classrooms participated in a classwide peer tutoring program. Performance on weekly tests was significantly improved; 60 percent of all students earned "A" grades, and failing grades were virtually eliminated. (Author/JDD)

To test the long-range effectiveness of its ESEA Title III-sponsored program, officials of the Logan-Cache County Tutorial Center tested students served by the program 1 and 2 years after participation. The students, originally identified as underachievers, had been tutored in one-to-one or one-to-three tutoring situations or had been part of a…