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Effects of a Reciprocal Peer Revision Strategy in Special Education Classrooms.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Intermediate grade students with learning disabilities learned to work in pairs to help each other with editing and revising of their compositions. The 13 subjects made more revisions and produced papers of higher quality when revising with peer support than did 16 students in a process-approach control group. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Importance of Instructional Complexity and Role Reciprocity to Classwide Peer Tutoring.
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Simmons, Deborah C.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
Effects of instructional complexity and role reciprocity within classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) programs were examined with a total of 119 students (learning disabled, low achieving, or normally achieving) in grades 2 through 5. Students in all CWPT conditions outperformed controls on a reading fluency measure; however only those in CWPT with role…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement, Peer Teaching
Combining Classwide Curriculum-Based Measurement and Peer Tutoring to Help General Educators Provide Adaptive Education.
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Phillips, Norris B.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
This paper describes and evaluates the efficacy of a combination of curriculum-based measurement and peer tutoring incorporated into 40 elementary education mathematics classes, to differentiate instruction and improve student achievement. The evaluation indicated that students with low achievement, average achievement, and learning disabilities…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness