Investigates the effect of high-risk students' use of self-monitoring strategies and instructors' use of verbal prompts on students' participation in tutoring and supplemental instruction, and on academic achievement. Finds a significant difference between mean semester GPA of supplemental instruction attendees and nonattendees, but none between…

An interactive multimedia tutorial system that focuses on the "why" aspect of user interface design is described. The system contains a design exercise, three experts for guidance, and a user group that comments on the usability of the design. Testing results indicate that learners consider more possible solutions to design issues. (Author/AEF)

The University of Arizona Strategic Alternative Learning Techniques (SALT) Center is profiled. The Center provides students with learning disabilities the skills and services needed during undergraduate experiences so that success is achieved when they enter graduate or professional programs. Data associated with the success of the SALT Center are…

Paints a portrait of a 7-year-old girl, her mother, and their experience at a community-based, after-school youth program in a public housing development, demonstrating how stories taken from the field can illustrate the power of peer education and motivate community based organization staff toward more inspired educational after school…

Describes a pilot study at the Open University of the United Kingdom that used a computer mediated communication (CMC) tutor group for a distance learning course. Highlights include the role of the tutor; benefits perceived by students; comparisons with face-to-face tutorials; and tuition issues. (LRW)

States that matching tutors and students by gender had no effect on tutoring outcomes in a study at a large mid-Atlantic research university with a well-established tutor training program. A strong relationship was found between the grades students received in courses and hours of tutoring received, a pre-college academic predictor, gender, and…

Analyzes liberal arts students' attitudes and views towards mathematics and social responsibility as they tutored inner city at-risk youths as part of a mathematics course in which they kept journals. Indicates that students' ideas about what it means to be socially responsible tended to become less egocentric. (Author/ASK)

Presents a study that measured the impact of a peer-assisted learning (PAL) program on student academic performance, and evaluated student and faculty feedback regarding their experiences with the program. Reports that PAL participants had a significantly higher course success rate than non-participants, and a significantly lower withdrawal rate…

Discusses implementation effects of a program for training Dutch primary school principals in teacher coaching techniques. Results found a significant treatment effect for coaching skills concerned with developing autonomy (empowerment), feedback, and agreement on teacher-observation goals. Ratings from coached teachers valued coaching skills…

Discussion of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) focuses on ITS evaluation studies, particularly methodological issues. Topics include summative evaluation for efficiency; quantitative evaluation; formative evaluation; informal evaluation; cognitive mediation perspectives of evaluation; integrating cognitive theories into ITS; effectiveness of…

This book argues that computers can revolutionize American education and resolve its problems if they are used as private tutors to provide effective, individualized instruction, especially in developing literacy. The book, located at a Web site, is characterized as unwieldy to read right from the computer. (SLD)

Discussion of the need for information literacy skills in higher education focuses on the development of a Web-based tutorial by the University of Texas at Austin library that can be integrated into first-year courses. Describes TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial) and explains how other libraries can adapt it for their own use. (LRW)

This paper describes the global feedback in ActiveMath, a Web-based adaptive learning environment for mathematics and beyond. It addresses some of the cognitive foundations and the architecture of the suggestion mechanism with its components. This architecture separates components for diagnosis from components for suggestions and different types…

The problem of secondary teachers' resistance to becoming teachers of reading is well documented. Unfortunately, the dominant model for many courses and in-service presentations has been transmission--teacher educators presenting knowledge and strategies for improving adolescent literacy and then expecting preservice and practicing teachers to…

Developments in forms of peer learning 1981-2006 are reviewed, focusing mainly on peer tutoring, cooperative learning, and peer assessment. Types and definitions of peer learning are explored, together with questions of implementation integrity and consequent effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Benefits to helpers are now emphasised at least as…