A program of Frontier College (Toronto), Beat the Street uses student-centered, individualized learning to give "street people" self-esteem and literacy skills. The program uses the street as a curriculum and volunteer tutors who are themselves street people. (SK)

Investigated whether elementary school girls' attributions about computer use follow a pattern of learned helplessness. Results from drill-and-practice and tutorial tasks involving 220 children show girls benefited from increased exposure time and that attributions to ease of task and ability predicted performance for both boys and girls.…

Discusses a hypermedia prototype system constituting a hypermedia dictionary environment and a database of field-specific reading passages with related exercises, for utilization in the teaching of English engineering terminology in foreign language environments. (eight references) (CK)

Presents results of a 1991 national survey conducted in The Netherlands that investigated the use of computer-assisted learning (CAL) in higher education. Topics addressed include academic disciplines using CAL; types of CAL, including drills, tutorials, and simulations; level of learner control; authoring languages and programing languages; and…

Discusses dilemmas teachers may face when shifting their concept of teaching or tutoring from explaining or telling to a constructivist perspective of facilitating the development of students' knowledge structures. Examines teachers' decisions during a 20-minute segment of dialogue between a student and teacher while studying linear functions. (14…

According to this literature review, school practices such as placement of at-risk students in alternative, nontraditional programs, individualized counseling, low student-teacher ratio, heavy vocational emphasis, and peer tutoring successfully lower dropout rates, whereas remediation, retention in grade, tracking, and suspension only exacerbate…

Reviews factors affecting the tutoring process, including students' expectations of tutors; equitable tutor-tutee relations; and tutor gender. Considers ways tutoring can capitalize on peer relationships and reasons that students earn higher grades with a same-sex tutor. Suggests that tutor training address cultural sex stereotypes, ethnic…

This study involved 524 students in 2 elementary schools in analyzing the effects of instructional service changes. Services included cooperative learning for sixth grade students, cross-age tutoring for special/remedial students in grades 1-3, and in-class services for all grade levels. None of the three treatments had much impact on achievement.…

Discussion of bibliographic instruction for users of CD-ROM products highlights computer-based tutorials (CBT) that were developed at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario. Structured searching is described, and problems created by the lack of commercial CD-ROM tutorials and adequate training videos are…

Describes the community service learning (CSL) activities of the Students Teaching Students program at LEAD USA in Williamstown (Massachusetts), a program that lets students set their own learning goals and receive college credit for CSL. The Berkshire Energy Project through Williams College, one model of this program, is described. (SLD)

Presents overview of the University of Surrey (UK) MA in Linguistics (TESOL) by distance-learning program and discusses quality-assurance measures such as learner-content (topic-focused bibliographies, study guides, updated modules, resource centers), learner-instructor (feedback, tutoring, pastoral visits, assessment and grievance procedures,…

Reports on the evaluation of a computer-based learning system at the University of Dundee (Scotland) used for computing courses. Describes use of the World Wide Web, tutorials, interface, motivation, perceived value in relation to lectures and laboratories, student attitudes, improvements made as a result of the evaluation, and future work. (LRW)

This dissertation examined the efficacy of using minimally trained college undergraduates to tutor third- through fifth-grade students with reading difficulties. Tutors receiving four hours of training in scripted reading program based on the principles of Direct Instruction and emphasizing explicit instruction in phonological awareness and…

This chapter discusses American Indian student services at one university as a model for providing support for Native American students attending a predominantly white institution.

Most studies on feedback compare elaborated feedback types presenting knowledge on the correct response (KCR) immediately together with further information to simple feedback types providing knowledge of result (KR) or KCR. This study uses bug-related tutoring feedback (BRT-feedback) offering strategic information for error correction, but no…