Examines the effects of a parent tutoring intervention on the reading performance of students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), at home and at school. Results indicate that reading performance in the home setting improved for all students and reading performance in the school setting showed improvements, but data should be…

Discusses agent technology within educational settings and describes two information systems, SMILE (Solution, Mapping, Intelligent, Learning, Environment) and AIMS (Agent based Information Management System) that use concept mapping to address issues including adaptive learner support, problem solving, information navigation, information…

Uses the example of service learning to examine connections between and definitions of public and private as they are deployed in writing, literacy studies, and the field of English. Argues that, done effectively, service learning fits well into an English Studies that is reconsidering its own boundaries and internal relationships. (RS)

Discusses issues related to the benefits of tutoring systems and the care needed in the domain of mathematics. Argues for a realistic learning environment in which a tutorial system could yield positive results. Lists some relevant and problematic tutoring systems features. Concludes with some guidelines for intelligent tutoring systems design in…

Identifies literacy activities that can be used by volunteers to support classroom instruction. Provides a set of guidelines that teachers may give to the volunteers who work with students in need of additional educational opportunities if the students are to meet the challenge of becoming successful, independent readers. (RS)

Describes the administration of a questionnaire that recorded the achievements and action planning of 812 students beginning undergraduate study. Results show that students who scored higher on criteria concerning quality practice were more likely to see recording achievement as having a role in learning management. Highlights implications for…

Argues that it is important for beginning teachers to receive part of their training in a small school like Latino Youth Alternative High School at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Relates how the program functions; gives Latino students' and tutors' reasons for appreciating it. Includes responses about teacher-student relationships as key to a…

Describes TACTweb, a World Wide Web-based text and analysis environment that represents the results of text queries as hypertext, and the TACTweb workbook, a tutorial that introduces college students to the hypertextual capabilities of electronic literature and to the analysis of electronic editions of traditional text. Student feedback is…

Argues that successful tutoring depends, in part, on child tutors' ability to recognize and interpret accurately signs of misunderstanding by their tutees. Investigates age and gender differences in perceiving cues to misunderstanding. Finds that older children and females more accurately interpret signs of confusion and that females can better…

Discusses the importance of early intervention and the necessity of providing support for at risk first graders to circumvent the cycle of failure that, once begun, persists. Presents a study comparing the effects of tutoring fourth graders by a trained prospective teacher and an untrained college athlete. Finds no significant difference in…

Five English language learners (ELL) teachers and 117 elementary students, including students with disabilities, participated in the Class-Wide Peer Tutoring Learning Management System. Students made considerable progress in mastering the curriculum over periods ranging from 15 to 21 weeks of school and students and teachers were satisfied with…

Examines the effects of Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) with reinforcement (CWPT+R) and without reinforcement (CWPT-R) on 77 Chinese students' spelling performance and intrinsic interest in lower secondary school Integrated Science. Reveals that the CWPT+R group made greater learning gains, while the same group displayed lower intrinsic interest in…

Explores conceptual frameworks and innovative computational environments to support lifelong learning. Topics include problems in the information age, including school-to-work transition; training issues; open systems; collaborative systems; intelligent tutoring systems; domain-oriented design environments; critiquing; inservice teacher education;…

Studied the relative impact on student achievement when students were paired with one other student or a large group of peers and when they worked with a teacher or did not. Results for 109 elementary school students indicate that access to a teacher or a large group of peers were equally potent learning resources in computer supported…

Asserts that Catholic schools have fewer problems such as teen pregnancy, sex, drugs, and alcohol, but that there needs to be more information provided to students on sex education. States that a great deal of tutoring and counseling are provided for students in Catholic institutions, and that students are treated with more care. (CW)