The article describes a program implemented in an elementary school in which normal children tutored their disabled peers. Among suggestions given for developing peer tutoring programs are the careful selection of participants, administration of pre-post achievement tests, and development of individualized objectives and activities. (SBH)

Studied the effects of training in learning style preferences on the ability of tutors to select appropriate learning strategies for student with disabilities. Findings for 68 tutors show that tutors were more successful in creating individualized strategy plans for students after training with the learning style chart. (SLD)

Provides brief descriptions of interactive tutorial and simulation programs for reading, writing, and mathematics; and of drill-and-practice courseware packages. (DMM)

Describes how a college tutoring program uses a strategy called TEST, which takes the ideas behind effective reading and learning and applies them to interactions between the student, the tutor, and the subject. (SR)

Raises the complementary issues of faculty/tutor collaboration and tutor-writing confidentiality at writing centers by relating a serious dilemma involving a student's blatant attempt at plagiarism of an online text. Raises concerns regarding conflicting roles of the writing center in upholding itself as a safe place for students and/or as a place…

The results of college-level tutoring programs are best described as mixed. The present study was designed as an attempt to quantify the effects of being tutored at the college level. A pretest-posttest design involving the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory was used. Results support the use of tutoring. (EMK)

Describes how in the implementation of the Humanities Out There (HOT) program, two consecutive modules focused on "border" in a range of senses--national, ethnic, linguistic, literary, and even interpersonal. Discusses how the worth of this program has opened a field of communication with potentially long-term benefits for an educational community…

In a survey of 294 nursing students and 57 faculty, students equally valued lectures, tutorials, and labs for learning biosciences. Faculty differed from students regarding the value of methods and time allocated to the biosciences. Adjustments in the allocation of curriculum topics and a tutorial system to augment lectures and labs were…

Previous work has established that a narrated animation is more effective at communicating a complex biological process (signal transduction) than the equivalent graphic with figure legend. To my knowledge, no study has been done in any subject area on the effectiveness of animations versus graphics in the long-term retention of information, a…

Writing centers have been working diligently to create a centripetal space to draw as many faculty and students into its collaborative learning process as possible. The degree to which writing centers have succeeded in this mission should now lead beyond the sanctum of the centers and even beyond the validated space of satellite centers. The…

A look at programmed tutoring, an effective method for one-to-one individualized instruction in kindergarten and first grade. (Author)

A look at programmed tutoring, an effective method for one-to-one individualized instruction in kindergarten and first grade. (Author)

In the past two decades, tutoring services have become an integral part of nearly every program at California's community colleges. The purposes of tutoring services are to provide individual attention to students in academic difficulty, training and assistance in developing effective study skills, assistance and support to special groups of…

The paper describes the background and development of HELP (Higher Education for Learning-disabled People). The HELP program located at Marshall University (West Virginia) provides testing to determine the presence of a learning disability; individual tutoring in reading, spelling, and written expression; oral tests; note-taking instruction; study…