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Adolescents' Comprehension and Content Area Education Students' Perceptions: Benefits from One-on-One Tutoring
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Warren-Kring, Bonnie Z.; Rutledge, Valerie C. – Teacher Educator, 2011
In this research study the authors analyzed the effectiveness of content-area education students tutoring adolescents and documented changes in the attitudes of the education students over time. Tutors tested the reading comprehension of both the students they tutored (treatment group) and students they did not (comparison group). The authors used…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Preservice Teachers, Reading Comprehension, Tutorial Programs
Weaker Readers as Experts: Preferential Instruction and the Fluency Improvement of Lower Performing Student Tutors
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Olson, Peter C. – Reading Improvement, 2011
This study attempted to determine whether giving lower performing tutors preferential instruction over their higher performing tutees before they engage in peer tutoring sessions may help increase the reading achievement for these lower performing tutors. The preferential instruction consisted of giving adult-delivered instruction in a targeted…
Descriptors: Expertise, Video Technology, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency
Parents: Active Partners in the Reading Program
Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Elementary English, 1974
Descriptors: Books, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Tutorial Students Two Years Later: A Report on the Logan-Cache Tutorial Center for Underachieving Readers and Writers.
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Shaver, James P. – 1969
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Grade 10, Grade 4
The Effect of Like Ethnic Qualities upon Reading Tutoring of Third Graders. Final Report.
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Dahlem, Glenn G. – 1973
In order to study empirically measurable characteristics of the tutorial relationship between an older student and a younger student, two separate investigations were conducted during two consecutive academic years, using different third graders as tutees and college or high school students as tutors in each study. The first research investigation…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cross Age Teaching, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Studies
A Study on the Effect of the Macmillan Tutorial System on the Reading Achievement of Selected First Graders in Nash County.
Smith, Ruth Suessmuth – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Macmillan Tutorial System when used as a supplement to regular classroom instruction in beginning reading. The experimental subjects were first grade children who ranked in the lower third of the distribution scores on the Macmillan Reading Readiness Test or who, in the opinion of their…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Reading
End-Of-Year Report Switzerland County-School Corporation: Learning Tutors Offer Instructional Assistance. Program Description and Evaluation.
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Wolpert, Edward M.; Schroeder, Thomas S. – 1975
The major goal of the "Learning Tutors Offer Instructional Assistance" project was to effect positive academic, social, and attitudinal changes in the participant. The participants included high school tutors and elementary school tutees who met and worked together on a daily basis. The activities for the tutorial sessions were decided…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, High School Students