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Direct linkDouglas Scott Samson – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The GREAT (Gifted Readers Enhance Academic Talent) Reading Project is a quasi-experimental, between-group study that evaluated a 13-week before-school student tutoring/mentoring reading and literacy program. The study examined the effects of the intervention on reading achievement for each group involved, including high-ability gifted fifth grade…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cross Age Teaching, Tutoring, Reading Instruction
De Smet, Marijke; Van Keer, Hilde; Valcke, Martin – Computers & Education, 2008
In the present study cross-age peer tutoring was implemented in a higher education context. Fourth-year students (N=39) operated as online tutors to support freshmen in discussing cases and solving authentic problems. This study contributes to a better understanding of the supportive interventions of tutors in asynchronous discussion groups. Peer…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Higher Education, Cross Age Teaching
Download full textSmith, J. Elspeth S. – Writing Instructor, 2011
In this essay, the author discusses her journey from her first year of the PhD program at USC, and the work she is doing now for a company that builds infrastructure in Afghanistan. She explores the ways in which studies for her 1985 PhD in Rhetoric, Linguistics and Literature did and did not prepare her for the work she does now. Her memoir…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Females, Expectation
Stecz, Stephanie L. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Significant research has been done on the cognitive and academic outcomes of older-younger and peer-peer student relationships. Whether in a one-on-one setting or a setting in which responsibility for teaching is shared among members of a collaborative group, well-planned, well-organized, and well-executed student-student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Action Research, Grade 8, Student Motivation
Gail Lorraine Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This mixed method research was designed to examine the effects of cross-age mentoring in an inter-institutional online learning community. The research questions focused on the impact of mentoring on high school students' confidence in their information seeking skills, perceptions of their information seeking standards, and the application of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Cross Age Teaching, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (NJ3), 2009
What reading programs have been proven to help students in grades 2-5 to succeed? To find out, this review summarizes evidence on three types of programs designed to improve the reading achievement of students in grades 2-5: (1) Reading Curricula (Curr), such as "Open Court," "Harcourt," "Reading Street" and other standard and alternative…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Reading Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Reading Programs
Evans, Darrell J. R.; Cuffe, Tracy – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2009
Peer teaching has been recognized as a valuable and effective approach for learning and has been incorporated into medical, dental, and healthcare courses using a variety of approaches. The success of peer teaching is thought to be related to the ability of peer tutors and tutees to communicate more effectively, thereby improving the learning…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Anatomy, Teaching Skills, Peer Teaching
Simon, Diane J.; Abrams, Lisa M.; McDonnough, Jacqueline T.; McLeod, Alan M.; Warren, Beverly J. – Metropolitan Universities, 2008
Project BEST (Basic Educational Skills and Training) is a mentoring program involving Virginia Commonwealth University students and area middle school students. In the two-tiered program, VCU faculty mentor the Project BEST college students who, in turn, serve as mentors to the middle school students. Activities include Saturday mathematics and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mentors, At Risk Students, Minority Group Children
Ragonis, Noa; Hazzan, Orit – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
This paper offers a tutoring model its objective is to develop and establish the pedagogical-disciplinary knowledge of prospective computer science teachers with respect to guiding learners in problem-solving processes. The paper presents the tutoring model and the research that accompanied its implementation. The research findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Tutoring, Models, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Carberry, Hugh H. – Educational Technology, 1975
A discussion of how the child study team concept has evolved in the past few years and the advantages of the current model. (HB)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Individual Instruction, Models, Tutorial Programs
Peer reviewedMelaragno, Ralph J. – Elementary School Journal, 1977
Conclusions of research into pupil tutoring are presented and seven areas requiring attention from those interested in the tutorial process are considered. (MS)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Tutoring
Paine, Carolyn A. – Learning, 1974
This article describes classroom-tested ideas and activities for use in cross-age tutoring in elementary schools. (Editors/JA)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Schools, Students, Tutorial Programs
Peer reviewedPaolitto, Diana Pritchard – Review of Educational Research, 1976
Discusses the effect of cross age tutoring on adolescents, the experience for the tutor, and the quality and quantity of the effect. Having moved from the practical to the theoretical, it is suggested that a rigorous experimental study measuring several aspects of development needs to be conducted. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Age Teaching, Literature Reviews, Research Needs
Peer reviewedLimbeck, Elizabeth; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1985
Reports a program, a modification of the "paired-reading" technique of Morgan and Lyon, which involved both concurrent modeling of correct reading and praise for reading independently by peer tutors. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Children, Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedMaher, Charles A. – Exceptional Children, 1984
A multi-element cross-age tutoring program involved handicapped adolescents as tutors of elementary school handicapped children in areas of reading, language arts, and mathematics. Program evaluation results suggested that the program can be readily implemented in public school districts, and that it is effective in enhancing scholastic…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disabilities, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
