Results show that peer tutoring (versus adult tutoring) and tokens for reading (versus tokens for attendance) did substantially and significantly improve the rate at which the children learned to read. (Authors)

Youth Corps tutors help preschoolers build on lessons from popular television show. (Editor)

The author cites studies that demonstrate the value of peer group techniques for reinforcing learning in educational settings. She reviews the literature on peer group learning in nursing education, and presents a peer group teaching-learning strategy that she developed for a course in community health and psychiatric nursing. (Author/CT)

Findings of the three experiments indicated that normal children can successfully teach social responses (i.e., delayed imitation, cooperative play, and verbalization of positive comments) to withdrawn mentally retarded peers (8 to 13 years old). Effects generalized across stimulus and response conditions, while the levels of responding were…

The topics of computer-assisted instruction, computer-augmented problem solving, and computer-managed instruction are discussed. In the field of computer-assisted instruction, uses of the computer for drill and practice, tutorial purposes, and simulation are examined. (Author/JN)

The computer is in the process of becoming an important aid to the teaching of statistics and probability at the middle and secondary levels. Examples show ways in which the computer can facilitate learning of mathematical concepts through tutoring, simulation, and computation. (JN)

Pre, post, and follow-up assessments showed that two tutoring programs (fantasy play tutoring and skill tutoring) had equal impact on the development of nursery school children's cognitive and linguistic development abilities. However, fantasy play tutoring showed a greater potential for maintaining or increasing social participation. (Author/MP)

Children in an English junior school with an attached unit for severely handicapped children were given a paper and pencil questionnaire to determine the level of acceptance of their handicapped peers. (Author)

Presents data from a study of Princeton chemistry students that supports the idea that students themselves are better predictors of their academic performance than are teaching assistants. The implications of this finding for making tutoring recommendations are discussed. (CS)

The authors focus on the trends of providing postsecondary education for deaf students on regular college campuses, as mandated by federal regulations and court cases. (CL)

An eclectic approach to individualizing instruction in secondary schools is suggested which includes the following classroom strategies: experiential learning, mastery learning, learning centers, peer and cross-age tutoring, and independent study. (JMF)

Eighteen second-grade children initially received feedback in the form of nonredeemable tokens for reducing their disruptive classroom behavior. (Author)

Discusses the use of unrehearsed, unedited videotapes of regular classroom courses for instructing small groups of students who are assisted by paraprofessional tutors as they watch the tape. (MLH)