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Download full textCollins, Carter H.; And Others – 1982
Unusual because they involve students above the primary level, the programs described in this report are designed to involve parents more fully in the education of their children. Presented are 28 programs in grades 4-12 initiated by school systems in large cities and operating during the 1980-81 school year. Information about the programs was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Home Study
Davis, Dan; And Others – 1984
Children's, teachers' and principals' reports are used to estimate the extent of tutoring activities in Israeli elementary schools and to provide information on their implementation. Eight studies evaluating the tutoring process and its effect on achievement, motivation, and self-concept are described. The data show that about 5% of elementary…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Perraton, Hilary – 1984
This handbook discusses the use of distance education for teacher training and examines the case for and against distance teaching; its organization; the development, production, and distribution of distance-teaching materials; tutoring and counseling; and the monitoring and evaluation of finance and resources. Distance teaching is defined as the…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgeting, Correspondence Study, Costs
Siegelman, Marvin – 1976
This report evaluated the Harlem Tutoring Program which was designed to give individual home tutoring in reading and mathematics to elementary school students in New York City. The students were at least two years below grade level in reading and/or mathematics. Forty-three students between the ages of six and thirteen participated in the program.…
Descriptors: After School Education, Basic Skills, Community Organizations, Home Instruction
Kay, Robert S.; Sullivan, Leroy – 1978
Colleges and universities are now dealing with certain students through a new component in their instructional environment. These emerging Learning Centers are typically designed to assist and guide capable but fundamentally ill-prepared handicapped students in acquiring needed background. In some cases, such components not only help dispense…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Basic Skills, College Students, Higher Education
Willey, Diane L. – 1978
This study was conducted to identify student and tutor variables related to student progress in a structured summer reading tutorial program. High school and college students and adults tutored individually 121 elementary and junior high school students for six weeks. Criterion variables were number of tutoring books completed, residual gain…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students, Predictor Variables, Reading Improvement
Heintz, Paul – 1975
The High School Homework Program was designed to provide eligible high school students, grades 9 through 12, with intensive individualized remedial instruction in reading, mathematics, and language as well as assistance with daily homework assignments. The major objectives of the program were to help students who were two or more years retarded in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, College Students, High School Students, Homework
Williams, Richard W. – 1981
This two-part module was prepared to assist instructors in designing and implementing a peer tutoring program. After introductory material and the presentation of a rationale for peer tutoring, Part I begins by stating learning objectives and providing a pretest. It then presents an overview of peer tutoring, outlining a systematic tutoring…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Learning Modules, Peer Teaching
Martin, Rita J.; And Others – 1981
The effects of high intensity tutorial/enrichment treatments involving language arts process development were the major research concerns of a two-summer project designed to provide preservice and inservice teacher education students with training in the development of language arts processes and in planning for instruction corresponding to a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Achievement
Armstrong, Suzanne Bryant; And Others – 1979
Theoretical considerations for peer and cross-age tutoring are presented, essential inqredients for effective programs are offered, and a practical approach used by consulting teachers to design and implement a cost-effective tutoring program in Barre, Vermont is described. Benefits for the tutor and tutee are pointed out, including that tutoring…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children
ADAMS, EFFIE KAYE – 1967
SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION PROVIDED FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS OR SMALL GROUPS OF STUDENTS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC PROGRESS AND PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT TO CLASSROOM WORK IS DISCUSSED. TUTORING IS CONSIDERED THE HEART OF THE REMEDIAL AND CLINICAL READING PROGRAM IN A COLLEGE READING LABORATORY. DATA FROM QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO 40 COLLEGE READING CLINICS…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Clinical Diagnosis, Dropout Prevention, Individualized Programs
FRY, EDWARD – 1967
A REVIEW OF RECENT INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN READING AND A CONSIDERATION OF TEACHER AND STUDENT ATTITUDES TOWARD THIS METHOD OF INSTRUCTION ARE PRESENTED. THE VARIOUS APPROACHES TO PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION DESCRIBED INCLUDE THE BUCHANAN PROGRAM READING SERIES, THE TALKING TYPEWRITER, TEACHING MACHINES (PHONICS…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instrumentation
WEITZMAN, DAVID L. – 1964
THIS TUTORING EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO PROVIDE A PLACE OUTSIDE OF REGULAR SCHOOL HOURS WHERE STUDENTS COULD RECEIVE ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION AND PRACTICE, AND TO CREATE AN EXPERIMENTAL SITUATION IN WHICH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A TUTORING PROGRAM AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL COULD BE EVALUATED. TUTORING WAS DONE BY JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS FROM…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, After School Education, Group Experience
Rodrigues, Raymond J.; White, Robert H. – 1981
As part of a series of sharply focused booklets based on concrete educational needs, this booklet is designed to provide teachers with the best educational theory and research on mainstreaming non-English speaking children in regular classrooms and to present descriptions of classroom activities that are related to the described theory. Section…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Rosenbaum, Laurie K.; And Others – 1980
Current research suggests that a lack of involvement and a sense of powerlessness pervades many aspects of life for the inner city poor, including childrearing. In the late 1960's, as the movement to involve parents in their children's schools grew, an assumption took root that such participation would help alleviate parents' feelings of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Disadvantaged, Inner City, Locus of Control
