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Peer reviewedBlustein, David L.; Burton, Yvonne – College Student Journal, 1979
Successful disadvantaged college students were used as peer tutor-counselors in a program designed to meet the needs of incoming disadvantaged freshmen. Retention rates were compared to a group of disadvantaged students without peer tutor-counselors. The higher rate of retention by the group utilizing tutor-counselors is discussed along with…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Higher Education, Intervention
Download full textWasik, Barbara A. – 1997
The America Reads challenge makes a national commitment to the goal that every child will read independently and well by the end of the third grade. The primary means of achieving this goal is to place one million volunteers in schools to tutor children in reading. However, little is known about the effectiveness of using volunteer tutors in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Outcomes of Education
John, Thomas – 1976
This two-year project used students at the junior and senior high school level as tutors to elementary students in the basic skills of math and reading. Tutor selection was based on continuing interest, attendance, scholastic achievement, and overall attitude toward the program. The final evaluative report includes the following information: (1)…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools, Formative Evaluation
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1989
This document comprises the first volume of a three-volume study, mandated by the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, on domestic and foreign tutoring programs for disadvantaged elementary and secondary students that involve college students. This volume summarizes the results of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
de Silva, Deema; And Others – 1992
This handbook provides assistance for tutors in Operation Success, a program to provide limited-income and first-generation college students with academic support services to enable them to persist and graduate from Wichita State University (Kansas). The program provides an interconnected series of academic support services; peer tutoring is…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cognitive Style, College Students, Communication Skills
Azcoitia, Carlos – 1989
A study investigated the impact that a structured peer tutoring program had on improving the mathematics and reading achievement scores of academically disadvantaged, handicapped, and limited English proficient students enrolled in vocational classes, and on the mathematics and reading achievement scores of their tutors. It also assessed 10…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, High Schools
Pellegrini, Robert J.; Hicks, Robert A. – 1971
The study measured the effects of attempted manipulation of tutors' expectations on the intellectual growth of their pupils. Tutors were given spurious information, allegedly based on testing, as to current and predicted intellectual fucntioning of their pupil. The experimental sample was comprised of 44 tutor-child pairs, with 11 paris assigned…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Boise City Independent School District, ID. – 1975
The Structured Tutoring Program evaluated in this report is a major break through as far as maximizing human resources in a school setting to assist the below average student is concerned. Approximately 800 Fifth and Sixth Grade students are trained as tutors and spend not more than fifteen minutes per day with 1,238 Second and Third Grade…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Federal Programs, Inservice Education
