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Setiani, Made Yudhi; MacKinnon, Allan M. – Distance Education, 2015
This study focused on the civic education course at Universitas Terbuka (UT). Its purpose was to design a new approach for the online tutorial for the course by analyzing the literature related to online and distance education and investigating participant feedback on the current offering of the course and tutorial, which is a compulsory course in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Civics, Citizenship Education
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Medway, Frederic J. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1991
Reviews studies of psychosocial variables that maximize outcomes in peer tutoring programs. Considers research on tutoring behaviors and their relation to outcomes; effective tutorial instruction methods; expectations and attributions in tutoring settings; tutorial roles and student pairings; and cooperative learning formats. Makes recommendations…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Literature Reviews
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
Eberwein, Lowell; And Others – 1976
The first section of this annotated bibliography is a selected review of research on the effects of volunteer tutoring programs. Reviews of 34 studies note the number, level, and type of students; type of tutors; area of U.S.; length, frequency, and duration of tutoring sessions; and achievement and other results of the tutoring programs.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews
Allen, Vernon L., Ed. – 1976
The use of children to tutor other children in school is the central theme of this volume; secondary themes of the book are helping relationships in general, and cross-age interaction by children. The book is addressed primarily to professionals who have a scholarly interest in this area, but it can be of use to practitioners. The book brings…
Descriptors: Children, Conceptual Schemes, Cross Age Teaching, History
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Maxwell, Martha – Journal of Developmental Education, 1991
Reviews factors affecting the tutoring process, including students' expectations of tutors; equitable tutor-tutee relations; and tutor gender. Considers ways tutoring can capitalize on peer relationships and reasons that students earn higher grades with a same-sex tutor. Suggests that tutor training address cultural sex stereotypes, ethnic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Ethnicity, Literature Reviews, Minority Groups