Results indicated that the four-deaf blind and severely retarded adolescent subjects performed tasks faster under instruction from high school tutors but required more assistance to complete tasks than under special education teachers. Teachers were more efficient instructors and presented more trials to students per unit of instructional time…

Describes the use of Peer Tutor/Counselors in the Learning Skills Development Center at the University of Southern California. Considers the skills involved in training tutors as counselors (e.g., building rapport, establishing credibility, assessing needs, creating a "serious" atmosphere, and articulating expectations, defusing…

To investigate the order in which the components of the text-lookback strategy are acquired, 100 fifth-grade students were asked to tutor younger readers. The order of acquisition was as follows: undifferentiated rereading, text sampling, question differentiation, and text manipulation. (Author/BW)

This article: (1) outlines advantages of having more than two students work together at the computer keyboard; (2) discusses several new issues teachers must consider; and (3) describes specific examples of applications designed to promote cognitive and social outcomes. (JMK)

After being peer tutors for weeks, attitudes of sixth graders toward disabled students became more positive and not substantially different from attitudes towards their own classmates. Attitudes of sixth graders not involved in the tutoring program did not change. Similar positive changes were obtained using a social distance measure. (Author/CL)

The extent and status of peer education programs at selected secondary schools around the United States were studied. Objectives of these programs, recruitment and training of leaders, curriculum, educational activities, and evaluation are reported. (PP)

Examined whether 16 mildly handicapped students working with tutors would show a greater academic gain than would students in a small group working with the resource teacher. Using a pretest-posttest control design it was found that after three months, students who had tutors showed a more significant gain in reading. (JAC)

This study was designed to observe the effects of the helping relationship on both the dispenser and the beneficiary of the help. Specifically, learning disabled juveniles on probation tutored learning disabled youngsters to read within a summer school setting. (Author/RK)

A procedure is outlined which is designed to enable teacher trainees to put into practice certain teaching techniques early in their training in order to make concurrent lectures on principles and methods more meaningful. (RM)

This package is one of a series of repackaged products aimed at alerting UNESCO users to a wealth of highly valuable educational resources that exist in the field of adolescent reproductive and sexual health. This document focuses on what research says is the impact of peer education in promoting necessary changes among adolescents in attitudes…

A study examined whether cross-grade peer tutoring increased student performance on weekly spelling tests. Subjects, 7 sixth graders and 19 second graders attending Coal City Elementary School in Raleigh County, West Virginia, spent 10 minutes each day for 9 weeks working on spelling. The experimental group used cross-grade peer tutoring and the…

This book presents 53 firsthand experiences of peer writing tutors. Each story explores a particular tutoring issue, from working with a quiet student to tutoring a student with a learning disability. Each tutor writes candidly in an informed and sensitive manner about successes and failures as partners in the collaborative learning process.…

In the San Francisco Bay Area (California), community agencies and organizations routinely use teenagers as mentors and teachers of peers and younger children. Despite the literature indicating that teens should derive many benefits from these roles, agency staff have observed teen teachers who appear frustrated, bored, or disengaged, or who have…

This paper discusses the juxtaposition of teamwork as found in school writing assignments with the value of individual work as demonstrated in the ideas of intellectual property and copyright. It begins by addressing the question of whether students perceive collaborative writing tools such as peer response as helping or hindering them when faced…

Out of a need for students to find a sense of belonging, Bainbridge College (Georgia) has started a peer-tutoring program, which recruits, trains and retains tutors of quality. The program has been in place for four years and has been very successful. Not only do tutors get the chance to help others with schoolwork, they also achieve personal…