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Wallace, Yolanda Gayles – 1988
This study examined the need for a program that would enable students in the middle grades to receive additional instruction/assistance in the basic skills outside of the regular classroom situation. The program was designed to assist students in reading, language usage, and mathematics. It sought to develop a model for the intergenerational…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary School Students, Intergenerational Programs, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedBurley, Suzanne; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
Evaluation of using a hearing peer tutor to provide daily 20-minute math instruction for a profoundly deaf sixth-grade girl indicated that the peer tutoring intervention was highly successful, with the tutee meeting accuracy criteria for each of 4 curriculum objectives after only a brief period of intervention. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Deafness, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Peer reviewedColeman, Susan – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes a cross-age tutoring program between middle school and kindergarten and second grade students. (MG)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 2, Intermediate Grades, Kindergarten Children
Download full textKeane, Kathy Ann – 1992
The need to decrease the number of students repeatedly receiving after-school detentions was addressed by the implementation of the Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) program. The PAL program is based on the premise that students act out because they desire power. The program gave students power over tutoring situations by having input into planning for…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cross Age Teaching, Discipline Problems, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedBessai, Frederick; Cozac, Con – Reading Teacher, 1980
Results of a Canadian study show that students with mild to medium reading disabilities benefited from tutorial remediation and continued to make normal progress the next nine months. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedWeine, Andrew M.; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1993
A group of high-risk transfer students in third through fifth grades participated in a school orientation program and received tutoring at school. A second group received additional tutoring at home. Both groups showed modest improvements in academic and social behavior. Combined tutoring at home and school was more effective for third graders…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedFresko, Barbara – Educational Studies, 1996
Summarizes a study that utilized path analysis to examine the effects of tutor-tutee intimacy, tutoring conditions, and background variables on overall tutor satisfaction. Reveals higher satisfaction among tutors reporting greater intimacy with tutees. Discusses those variables affecting intimacy including ethnicity, same-sex pairing, and ease of…
Descriptors: Empathy, Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Individual Instruction
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Social Welfare Development and Research Center. – 1974
An operational description of the 1973-74 Buddy-Tutor Project at Hilo Intermediate School in Hilo, Hawaii and an evaluative assessment of its outcome with statistical treatment of the data is provided in this report. This project is an exploratory behavioral intervention program for educationally deprived students and focuses its efforts on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Bender, David S.; And Others – 1994
This paper describes the history, characteristics, program model, activities, and evaluation results of the Pottstown Homework Center Partnership project, in Pottstown County, Pennsylvania. The goal of the program is to initiate homework centers and train volunteer tutors from the community to support the at-risk middle students by providing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Extracurricular Activities, High Risk Students
