The effect of three different modes of providing tutorial services on the academic performances of special services program students was investigated. The types of tutorial systems were voluntary, compulsory, and combining voluntary and compulsory tutoring. The sample consisted of all freshmen who participated in the Developmental Education…

In order to make recommendations for improvement of the mathematics laboratory at Mira Costa College, questionnaires were mailed to 100 community colleges. Of the 40 responding, 17% had completely self-paced labs, 20% combined open labs with individualized instruction, 20% had no lab instruction, and the remainder had a variety of offerings.…

Nineteen students, ranging in age from 8 to 18, served as subjects in an investigation of the effect of an individualized reading tutorial program on the locus of control (LOC) and locus of evaluation (LOE) of children with reading disabilities. Over a 12-week period, the subjects received from 24 to 60 50-minute sessions of individualized reading…

The report discusses the status of higher education for disadvantaged students in California. The programs in operation at public and private colleges and universities are geared toward increasing the accessibility of higher education to students from disadvantaged circumstances. Noted are special actions in recruitment, financial assistance and…

The Help-a-Child Tutoring Project was designed to provide college students with practical tutor/teaching experience while also providing local school children with academic tutors. This project description has six subdivisions, which present brief descriptions of: (1) the project's recent history; (2) the organization and sequence of the program;…

This report summarizes the year's activities of a project at two adult correctional institutions which utilized computers in their educational programs to supplement the existing GED, basic math, language arts, reading, and vocational skills and awareness curriculums. The computer is used as a supplement to the educational programs by providing…

The papers presented at this conference focus on instructional technology in community/junior colleges. The keynote speaker, F. Elkins, addresses the problem of involving faculty in a Learning Resources Program--teaching faculty to utilize available media materials and to develop their own materials, in order to provide students with alternate…

Group classes with 30-40 children per teacher favor the children who catch on fast. These children participate more in class and give more feedback to the teacher, so the teacher gears instruction to them and goes too fast for students who are having difficulty. Peer and cross-age tutoring, can supplement class learning and help the below-average…

Intelligent computer assisted instruction (CAI) systems are exemplified by several tutorial systems including Tutor-SCHOLAR, Map-SCHOLAR, NLS-SCHOLAR and SOPHIE. The original SCHOLAR program structure made it possible to model the way human tutors interact with students. Further analyses of tutoring and teaching strategies led to the development…

An early childhood education program for children of migrant and seasonal farm workers, the Project provides tutoring, usually outside of regular school hours, to kindergarten and first grade children. The tutoring is done by adult paraprofessionals who are former migrants or seasonal farm workers. Program focus is to: (1) develop the child's…

Initiated in February 1974, the Project consists of a mobile and a non-mobile component. In the mobile component, adults from the families who migrate are trained to serve as a teacher. These teaching adults tutor the children, usually in groups of 6 to 10 children, in each location to which they move. Since the public school has the primary…

The Bilingual Mini-School Tutoring Project offers parents a major role in their children's education as decision makers responsible for hiring and other areas of program operations and as teachers providing bilingual, bicultural instruction. The program design has two components: the mobile and the non-mobile component. The non-mobile program has…

The functional content unit on consumer credit is part of a system developed for tutor training and support for adult literacy programs. A key component of the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides (designed as training and reference aids for tutors) and Functional Content Units (intended to help tutors…

The functional content unit on getting and keeping a job is part of a system developed for tutor training and support for adult literacy programs. A key component of the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides (designed as training and reference aids for tutors) and Functional Content Units (intended to help…

This study sought to determine the effect of the Grant Von Harrison Lay Tutor Program on low-achieving, sixth-grade students who became tutors and on low-achieving second graders who were tutored. Experimental groups and control groups of sixth graders were formed from a list provided by the principal. Students were pre- and posttested for reading…