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Download full textPapay, Twila Yates – 1990
The head of the writing center at Rollins College, in an attempt to develop a metaphor for the writing center turned to peer writing consultants. Their suggested metaphors structure an essay about what a writing center should be: a community of consultants and clients working together, respectful of diversity, originality, tolerant of differences.…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Discourse Modes, Group Dynamics, Group Guidance
Whitaker, George W. – 1995
In 1992, the English Department of Florence-Darlington Technical College, in South Carolina, initiated a freshman composition program utilizing computer word processing in a full-term writing workshop format. The program includes 12 to 16 sections of English 101 taught in classrooms containing 22 networked computers, while software consists of…
Descriptors: College English, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Freshman Composition
Duek, JodyLee Estrada; Wilkerson, LuAnn – 1995
Of concern in the problem-based learning process in medical student education is the effect of allowing students to generate their own learning issues while discussing cases and problems. This study considered learning issues in problem-based learning, studying faculty and student overlap and consistency across learning groups while adding the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Learning, Educational Objectives, Group Dynamics
de Silva, Deema; And Others – 1992
This handbook provides assistance for tutors in Operation Success, a program to provide limited-income and first-generation college students with academic support services to enable them to persist and graduate from Wichita State University (Kansas). The program provides an interconnected series of academic support services; peer tutoring is…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cognitive Style, College Students, Communication Skills
HOSTS Corp., Vancouver, WA. – 1985
This compilation presents material related to the HOSTS (Help One Student To Succeed) Reading Mastery/Learning/Tutorial System, a program consisting of the use of electronic databases, comprehensive diagnostic tests, computer software, instructional materials, staff development, tutorial master plans, and a professional support system to support…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Instruction
Patel, Fay – 1991
Initiatives are described that have been undertaken by the Student Development Tutorship Programme at the M.L. Sultan Technikon in South Africa, a program established in 1990 to provide assistance and support to disadvantaged students, primarily Black students from areas with inadequate facilities and instructors in the "homelands" and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Condravy, J. C. – 1990
Slippery Rock University's tutor training program, "Learning Together: An Interactive Approach to Tutor Training," was instituted in January 1983 to prepare newly hired tutors to provide academic and study skills assistance to regularly admitted and academically underprepared students. The program, funded jointly by a state Act 101 grant…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Models
Gijselaers, Wim – 1994
Questions about the necessity of tutors' content experience and what skills are required to make tutor behavior effective have received increased attention in the literature about problem-based learning. The present study attempts to examine the effects of context-specific variables through analysis of the generalizability of tutor behavior and…
Descriptors: Background, Behavior Patterns, Context Effect, Correlation
Michael, Jacqueline R. – 1989
This document includes a report describing the Precollegiate Enrichment Program at West Georgia College and a handbook developed by the program. The program was designed to meet both financial and volunteer needs of college students and to encourage children, ages 10-12, to continue their education past high school. Twenty academically talented…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Students, Compensation (Remuneration), Disadvantaged Youth
Keegan, Desmond J. – 1981
The Open University of the United Kingdom is acknowledged as the most successful distance education program yet designed. High among the reasons for its success is the student support service provided by the Regional Tutorial Services, a department of the Open University administrative structure which has received little acclaim. This paper shows…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Computer Uses in Education, Counseling Services, Database Management Systems
Berger, Gertrude – 1988
The current state of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in kindergarten through grade 12 is discussed. Four formats for CAI--drill, practice, tutorial, and simulation--are defined, and a set of criteria for distinguishing between effective and ineffective CAI are described. Comparisons are made between human and computer tutors. In response to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Courseware, Drills (Practice)
MacDonald, Ross B. – 1987
In 1984, a year-long evaluation was conducted at Los Medanos College (California) of the Language Arts Tutorial Program, a cross-curricular assessment and retention program built around course-specific assessments and tutorial assistance. The primary objective of the evaluation was to measure the effectiveness of the assessment procedure and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Outcomes of Education
Chute, Adrienne – 1987
Focusing on federal efforts to fight illiteracy through the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), Title I, this report describes some of the literacy projects that have been supported by LSCA funds, examines current literacy trends, and discusses some ideas for the future. The definition of literacy is considered, public libraries are…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Programs, Federal Aid, Instructional Materials
Guerrero, Frank; Abbott, Lori – 1990
This first volume of a four-volume evaluation of the 1988-89 New York City School Community Education Program (also known as the Umbrella Program) comprises reports evaluating 10 innovative projects that provide reading, mathematics, writing, English as a Second Language, and computer literacy instruction. Evaluation sources included student…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Literacy, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Wurzbacher, Mark F.; Yeannakis, Christine H. – 1986
This review of the California Literacy Campaign (CLC), a statewide, community-oriented, library-based program funded under the California Library Services Act, is designed to determine the extent to which CLC has been effective in carrying out its mission, the manner in which increased effectiveness may be achieved, and ways in which program…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Assessment, Library Services, Literacy Education
