This study demonstrated that 49 teen-age high school tutors, under the guidance and assistance of competent reading consultants, could bring about gains in the reading achievement of 215 elementary school children reading at least one year below their grade level. (CS)

In a study of academic and behavioral changes in tutored inner-city children, the positive effects of a support system for tutors and the importance of considering motivational variables in designing adequate controls were highlighted. (EH)

A study investigated a communication skills tutoring program to determine if peer tutoring proved an appropriate pedagogy for communication skills training. A survey, in which questions were grouped into categories of instructional, ethical, and training issues, was distributed to 8 instructors and to 12 tutors who were enrolled in a course…

Peer tutoring has a long historical precedent in western civilization. Since its reemergence in the United States during the 1960s, it has been used for every age group, subject matter, and level of intelligence. Numerous research studies have shown the benefits of peer tutoring, its efficacy in the college writing center has caught the attention…

Operation Success at Wichita State University provides a supportive framework for assisting disadvantaged students in successfully completing their college education. It is organized in three complementary components; (1) tutorial, (2) cultural enrichment activities, and (3) research and evaluation. This report thoroughly outlines the organization…

This paper presents a brief overview of research relevant to early childhood education, reviews some recent intervention programs for preschool and kindergarten children, and investigates the need for policymakers to establish programs based on research findings. Particular attention is given to an intervention research study conducted with…

An outline is presented of Barnet College's flexistudy program, a system for providing a wider range of learning opportunities through a more flexible arrangement of course times and content to students who are unable to attend college regularly, who are too few in number to form a specialist class, or who wish to start school at some time other…

Prior to 1980, instructional support services were scattered in various divisions throughout Denver Auraria Community College (DACC), with little sense of mission and coordination. In 1980, the college developed a model for a coordinated instructional support division, based on the identification of the most important instructional and…

The use of Goal Attainment Scaling to evaluate a home-based educational intervention in which parents acted as tutors of their own elementary-school-aged children is described. Goal Attainment Scaling is a model originally developed for the National Institutes of Mental Health as a means of evaluating the activities of community mental health…

Two experiments compared cross-age and peer tutoring interventions within special education settings. In experiment 1, 47 elementary age learning and/or behaviorally disordered (LD/BD) students acted as tutors of younger LD and BD students. In experiment 2, 31 same-age LD and BD students alternated tutor and tutee roles. In both experiments,…

Discusses the teaching of an experimental, individualized, lectureless course in chemistry with emphasis on programed instruction, audiovisual presentation, computerized examinations, and tutorial methods. Concludes that the program may prove superior in teaching of certain elementary chemical concepts to underprepared students. (CC)

Cross age tutoring is the subject of this document. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This document, one of a series of seven on this…

Research supported by U.S. Public Health Service grant K3-MH-10, 749. Disadvantaged Youth

The educational literature on tutoring programs indicates definite and positive effects on the academic performance and attitudes of those who receive tutoring. Such students outperform their peers on examinations, and they express more positive attitudes toward the subjects in which they are tutored. Tutoring programs also have positive effects…

Seventeen medical school students who participated in a commercial test preparation course were matched with 17 other students judged to be of equal ability. These two groups were compared on the basis of their scores on Part I of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). The two groups were matched closely on both the grade point average…