Use of peer correction of compositions in ESL classes improves writing skills and oral communication and reinforces understanding of principles. Four procedures outlined are whole class correction, immediate feedback and rewriting, seeking specific types of errors, and correction of modified and duplicated essays. (CHK)

This paper outlines lessons about teaching and learning one college teacher learns from students in peer study groups. From the perspective of the teacher, these lessons are: (1) student-led discussions make the lectures and reading assignments more valuable to the students; (2) it is important to spend time modeling the thinking process for…

This paper examines how peer relationships influence students' academic success. Beginning with a brief definition of peer groups, it turns to a more extensive discussion of a typology of peer groups and the ways in which peer groups function to influence academic success in general and college-going behavior specifically. To help all students…

The purpose of the study outlined here was to attempt to estimate the influence which selected parental attitudes might have on the rate of moral development of children. (Author)

A description of how peer tutoring can work with a systems approach. (HB)

Results showed differences between the factor structures of the peer and self-ratings, though each analysis yielded two interpretable factors. Counselors of both sexes judged high in competence by their peers had significantly better scores on both peer factors than their counterparts perceived as low in competence after items falling within each…

Fifteen graduate students in psychology and 15 individuals with no formal psychology training were each paid to construct one 20-item scale to measure Sociability, Achievement, or Dominance. (Author)

Extensive observations contrast the Mexico City groups by the interests and subjects of conversation of the men, the relationship of the family to the groups, the importance of kinship and mutual aid, and degree of sophistication and cosmopolitanism. (JM)

Study reaffirmed the central significance of the peer group's influence on adolescent behavior. (Authors)

Male and female students, ages 5-19, were subjected individually to an obviously and unanimously wrong decision by a group of their same-sex peers. Conformity differed among the age groups but not between the sexes. Maximum conformity was found in the adolescent age group. (Author)

Case studies illustrate use of positive reinforcement to improve academic achievement of a low achieving 9-year-old boy, and use of group contingency procedures to modify deviant behavior of a fourth-grade boy. (KW)

Results of participant observation study of eighty students indicates that smoking plays important role in determining school social status. Lack of such realization by establishment, and call for non smoking ideal student model who often is actually a smoker, create contradiction in moral organization of school, recognizable only to other…