A description of a project which produced and provided programed learning materials for slow learners. These programs have been printed and distributed in over 30,000 free copies throughout Canada and have been a source of hope and assistance to teachers and parents. (Author)

Study was concerned only with the impact of tutoring on the tutor's learning and attempted to determine whether tutors cognitively restructure the material in anticipation of teaching it to someone else. (Author/RK)

Describes a six-week experimental cross-age tutoring program involving seventh and eighth graders deficient in reading skills as tutors of kindergarten through sixth grade students also exhibiting deficiencies in reading skills. (TO)

Presents step by step procedures for training tutors to work with children in an individualized reading instruction program. (RB)

Some tips on helping underqualified persons prepare for community college. Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (Editor)

A project carried out by a group of graduate social work students in a facility within a mainly black low-income area offers evidence of the effectiveness of innovative techniques, and discloses problems facing black and white staff members. (Author/ST)

Possible effects that college female students in education had on third and fourth grade male and female isolates were investigated. (NQ)

Activities, instructional methods, and some ideas from educational psychology used in tutoring a second grader in addition and subtraction are described. (DT)

A meta-analysis of findings from 65 independent evaluations of school tutoring programs showed that these programs have positive effects on the academic performance and attitudes of both tutees and their student tutors. Tutored students outperformed control students on examinations and developed positive attitudes toward the subject matter…