The Basic Education and Enrichment Program (BEE) was established at Elizabeth City State College in September 1968. Its basic purpose is to offer freshmen innovative educational assistance in acquiring skills needed for the successful completion of college. BEE consists of three types of activities: tutoring sessions, counseling, and testing. All…

Nine gifted fifth grade students received a 2-week training program, tutored 36 educable mentally retarded (EMR) first grade students for 12 weeks, and later gave responses on an attitude scale (as did 15 gifted nonparticipating controls). During training the experimental Ss were taught to use materials such as readiness books and a flannel board,…

A program was developed to use the PLATO IV system of the University of Illinois to help students solve typical programing problems. The program tries to approximate a near-ideal situation in which each student receives correction of logical errors and comments on good programing practice as he goes along in a one-on-one tutorial environment. The…

Investigated was the effect of diagnostic progress tests and tutorial help to promote mastery learning on achievement and attitudes of students enrolled in a mathematics course for prospective elementary teachers. All students were pre-tested with an achievement test covering the objectives of the course and with both Dutton's and Aiken's attitude…

Research constructed a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) tutor which could transmit problem solving heuristics, choose examples, handle examples from a range of students, and learn superior student heuristics. Using a student subject model and tutorial strategy, an experiment was conducted with 284 problems. Subject response data indicated the…

The purpose of this study was to establish answers to the following questions: (1) Does a cross-age teaching program provide a situation in which school children can extend their role repertories by enacting the role of the tutor to younger children? (2) Can the language used by children in the role of tutor be classified under categories derived…

Effectiveness of the audio-tutorial (A-T) method of teaching general biology was studied among freshman subjects during the 1970-71 academic year at Bloomsburg State College. Analyses were made of achievement scores on examinations taken by the experimental and control groups each semester. No evidence of enhanced benefits was illustrated by the…

The audio-tutorial (A-T) method of teaching biology at the University of North Dakota was studied among 79 subjects during the Fall term of the 1969-70 academic year to determine its effectiveness in comparison with the conventional method. Thirty-eight students were assigned randomly to the A-T group and 41 to the control group. All subjects were…

This document is intended as a guideline for volunteers who work with elementary children in mathematics in the Oklahoma City School System. Following referral and progress sheets designed to increase teacher-volunteer communication about the student, the bulk of the book is a list of involvement activities to assist volunteers in helping students…

The purpose of this study was the determination of those peer teaching variables crucial for the older child's maximal satisfaction. Subjects were 48 fifth grade and 48 third grade children, each grade consisting of 24 males and 24 females. The failure of some subjects to participate in all experimental sessions necessitated the elimination of…

Described is a study to evaluate the effectiveness of peer tutoring and evaluate effectiveness of tutor-tutee interaction involving 15 third, fourth, and fifth graders, all at least one year below grade level in oral reading, and who are divided into tutors, tutees, and controls. (DB)

Effective training and management techniques for the implementation of paraprofessional support systems for mainstreamed deaf students are demonstrated at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). (PHR)

This article promotes the use of the socratic tutorial in making the study of physiology more appropriate to the needs of medical students. Data are also presented on the use of tutorials in physiology. (MR)

Describes a 1-year experimental program set up in a Canadian vocational training institution to study a systems versus the traditional approach to managing technical training. Project data indicated that the experimental group achieved the same body of knowledge in approximately half the training time of the traditional group. (MF)