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Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Highway One, 1984
Offers advice and guidance to those wishing to develop a volunteer tutoring program that costs little and helps many children in need of tutorial assistance in reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Content, Program Development, Reading Difficulties
Download full textMeier, Joanne D.; Invernizzi, Marcia – 1999
A study implemented and evaluated the Book Buddies model using National Service volunteers as tutors for high-risk first-grade students in a high-poverty urban setting. Using a design with a randomly assigned control group, results show that tutoring sessions produced clear effects. Children who received 40 Book Buddies lessons significantly…
Descriptors: Grade 1, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Maloney, John D. – 1976
The Ohlone College Reading Center had developed an integrated system of diagnostic testing procedures, individualized prescription of skill building materials, and the training of reading tutors which provides the remedial reading student with personalized instruction based on his specific skills needs. The key to this successful program is the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Individual Instruction, Peer Teaching, Reading Centers
Peer reviewedAnderson, Ora Sterling; Smith, Laura J. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Describes a college developmental reading laboratory model using peer tutors to provide training in comprehension study skills. Reports the results of a study evaluating the impact of training on student performance from the perspective of the participants. (MM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Models, Peer Teaching
Leitner, David; Ingebo, George – 1984
Helping One Student To Succeed (HOSTS) is a nationally validated Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter I exemplary program adopted by 24 schools in the Portland (Oregon) School District. The HOSTS program has operated in three schools since 1979-80, 17 more since 1981-82, two more since 1982-82, and two more since 1983-84. It is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Computer Managed Instruction, Educational Assessment
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
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
