Examined how peer tutors' skill levels affected novice learners' swimming achievement motivation and performance. Data on French high school seniors indicated that skilled tutors yielded the best skills for boys, whereas skilled and intermediate tutors yielded the best skills for girls. Skilled tutors led to higher self-efficacy for improvement…

This case study addressed the meanings two preservice teachers ascribed to four expert strategies used in reciprocal teaching (questioning, summarizing, clarifying, and predicting) and four learning principles upon which reciprocal teaching is built (cognitive apprenticeship, scaffolding, zone of proximal development, and proleptic teaching).…

This article explains the combination of instructional practices called personalized contextual instruction (PCI) and illustrates its implementation by a general education teacher, a special education teacher, and a paraprofessional working together in a multiage primary inclusive classroom. The PCI approach incorporates individual learning…

This listing provides the title, author, and length of doctoral dissertations completed during 2002 relating to children and adults with deafness or hearing impairments. Topics include speech development, literacy, peer tutoring, curriculum based assessment, and the effect of student placement on narration skills. Ordering information is provided.…

Two experiments involving 131 graduate students were conducted to determine effects of reciprocal peer tutoring (RPT) on graduate students' academic achievement, test anxiety, and academic self-efficacy. RPT and nonRPT groups did not differ significantly on achievement tests, but other results suggest that RPT may help students achieve learning…

Describes four models of library instruction that were developed at the University of California, Irvine to promote information literacy and to maximize the use of existing library staff: librarian as instructor, teaching assistant as instructor, students as instructors, and student self-paced instruction. (Author/LRW)

Notes that recent research on peer response suggests that with training and practice, peer respondents learn to read, talk, and think about writing with greater maturity and sophistication. Argues that students have a great deal to learn from giving as well as receiving response. (RS)

Investigated how teachers coached one another accepted advice and feedback from colleagues and changes that occurred in classroom practices. Describes and presents data for a peer coaching program. (YP)

Gifted/talented secondary-school students used the Students Questioning Students method in their mathematics classes. The method stimulated higher-order thinking, made students more attentive listeners, and improved their public speaking self-confidence. The paper offers suggestions for implementing the method and includes three pages of letters…

When Richmond County, Georgia, teachers formed study groups to become proficient in new teaching strategies, their students' achievement and behavior improved markedly. The teachers adopted an organic approach to school renewal, restructuring the workplace and using training to bring research-based teaching models into teachers' regular workday.…

A study at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands) law school found that students (n=200) tutored by other students showed improved academic achievement as high as those (n=207) taught by staff tutors. Data were gathered from overall assessment of essay question responses and a more elaborate propositional analysis of a sample of responses.…

Describes a research project that investigated the use of supplemental instruction (SI), a formalized system of peer-supported learning, in large introductory business courses at Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom). Results suggest that attendance at some SI sessions provided immediate improvement as well as long-term transferrable…

College students who did and did not attend an AIDS peer education program completed preprogram and postprogram surveys to determine their AIDS-related attitudes and behavior. Data analysis indicated students who attended the program were more likely to engage in preventive behaviors including condom use and HIV-antibody testing. (SM)

Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is described as an assessment system that can facilitate individualized instruction and accommodate student diversity. Topics addressed include: features of CBM, its use in special education, research that extends CBM to mainstream settings, and the combination of CBM and peer-mediated instruction. (SW)

A review of the literature and descriptive examples of peers implementing the "high probability request" (HPR) strategy for changing behavior in young children with behavior disorders are presented. HPR intervention involves delivering three to five high probability requests with positive reinforcement in rapid succession, followed by a…