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Cohen, Royce – Amer Educ, 1970
Adults who cannot read are receiving help through a special program operated in New York State. This program is conducted on a volunteer basis; that is, only those who want to improve the level of their literacy are accepted as participants. (CK)
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Reading Instruction, Tutorial Programs
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National Elementary Principal, 1971
Volunteer reading tutors have chalked up impressive successes in helping children who have reading disorders. (RA)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Improvement, Tutorial Programs, Volunteers
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Lacey, Candace; LeBlanc, Patrice; Collins, Mary – Planning and Changing, 2000
Evaluates Palm Beach County School District's Safe School Center tutorial program, a summer-school program for middle-school students who failed subjects during the academic year. Describes program successes, failures, and lessons learned. (Contains 38 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Program Evaluation, Tutorial Programs
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Johnson-Glenberg, Mina C. – Educational Media International, 2010
This research examined the impact of formative quizzes on e-learning designed to teach volunteers how to tutor struggling readers. Three research questions were addressed: (1) Do embedded quizzes facilitate learning of e-content? (2) Does the announcement of upcoming quizzes affect learning? (3) Does prior knowledge interact with quizzing and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Prior Learning, Testing, Adult Learning
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Gujjar, Aijaz Ahmed; Choudhry, Bushra Naoreen; Choudhry, Amtul Hafeez – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This paper attempts to compare the availability, quality, similarities and differences of students' support services in United Kingdom Open University (UKOU) and Sri Lanka Open University (SLOU) and also to identify and enlist the deficiencies that SLOU students are facing in the student support services. To get the desired end four hundred…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Personnel Services, Open Universities, Foreign Countries
Online Submission, 2011
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation
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Sakar, A. Nurhan; Ozturk, Oznur – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In 2006, following the Bologna Process, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) adopted a resolution and changed the curriculum of teacher training higher education institutions. This curriculum revision introduced a new course called "Community Service" which aims to raise students' awareness of their responsibilities as individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Web Based Instruction
Feldman, Robert S.; Allen, Vernon L. – 1972
Recent evidence suggests that the use of children acting as tutors for their peers may prove beneficial to the tutor as well as to the tutee. There is now abundant, unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence, and some controlled experimental work, which suggests that the tutor benefits greatly from his involvement in teaching. The enactment of the role of…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Peer Groups, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring
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Knief, Lotus M.; Cunningham, George K. – AEDS Journal, 1976
Results of this study support the use of tutorial computer-based instruction lessons in statistics for improving performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Tutorial Programs
Brown, David M.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1986
A tutoring program for children with problems in learning to read used stickers as reinforcers in a token economy. (CL)
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reinforcement, Token Economy, Tutorial Programs
White, Jean – American Education, 1971
A program aimed at improving the academic standing of children through the use of tutors in a disciplined, tightly structured setting seems to be working well. (CK)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Programed Instruction, Tutorial Programs
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Gartner, Alan; And Others – Childhood Education, 1971
Reports on the growth of tutorial programs in which children learn through teaching. (AJ)
Descriptors: Individual Instruction, Learning Theories, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring
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Rich, Nancy S. – NASSP Bulletin, 1979
Talks about the reorganization of a high school tutoring program to make it more effective. (LD)
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Secondary Education, Tutorial Programs, Tutors
Huang, Leesa V.; Nelson, R. Brett; Nelson, Diana – California School Psychologist, 2008
In order to increase reading fluency, a research-based tutoring method using repeated reading was implemented over a 10-week period with two second-grade students. Two high school students were trained to be the tutors. In addition, one parent and one older sibling were trained to repeat the tutoring process at night. Treatment integrity was…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Fluency, Sight Vocabulary, Integrity
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Kieran, Patricia; O'Neill, Geraldine – Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, 2009
Peer-Assisted Tutorials (PATs), a form of Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL), were introduced to a conventional 4-year honours degree programme in Chemical Engineering. PATs were designed to support students in becoming more self-directed in their learning, to develop student confidence in tackling Chemical Engineering problems and to promote effective…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Chemical Engineering, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
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