The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to describe briefly the Purdue Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) Program operating within the Department of Child Development and Family Life; (2) to review other programs with similar characteristics in other areas and at other levels of education; and (3) to discuss briefly the…

A peer tutoring system was used to improve the math skills of nine eighth grade students in a mainstreaming program. Ss (whose math skill deficits ranged from 3.8 to 6.6 years) met daily with peer tutors for one half hour of instruction from the Sullivan Associates Programmed Math series. Achievement rates after 3 months ranged from 4.8 months per…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," annually serves about 4000 disadvantaged students in grades nine through twelve in 50 high schools. Many of the students are black or Spanish-speaking and come from low-income homes in the inner city. The program, begun in 1969, is designed to provide individualized tutoring in…

Three sections (two conventional and one experimental) of English 140 at St. Petersburg Junior College (Florida) were used to investigate whether or not the use of a writing laboratory would lead to writing improvement. The laboratory provided scheduled opportunities for writing revision and improvement through peer criticism and tape-recorder…

This newsletter describes the Hawaii Language Skills Program, a total instructional system that provides teacher materials, pupil materials, instructional approaches, and ways of assessing children's progress in language skills, literature, and language systems. Key approaches used include self-direction and peer tutoring. The children are trained…

The purpose of this study was to conduct an ecological study of a self-contained classroom of 8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds in order to: (1) define various techniques through which students offer help to and receive help from peers; (2) identify the types of situations under which these different types of peer helping relationships are likely to occur;…

This study was conducted to determine the effects of peer editing/grading of themes on grammar-usage and theme-writing ability of students enrolled in freshman level college composition courses. Fifty students, equally divided into experimental and control groups, completed two forms of the Language Knowledge Test (LKT), one as a pretest and one…

This article presents a summary of a peer tutoring program survey and a report on the broadly based campus senate. The summary of peer tutoring programs reviews survey methodologies and peer tutoring programs. The program review indicates goals, finances, selection of tutors, tutor training, tutors' wages, the number of tutees, matching for…

In this study, three grade 5 classes were tested during a 3 week period to determine the effect that classroom discussion has on certain quantitative aspects of composition. Each week, 78 subjects viewed a short film with no narration and--after either no discussion, class discussion, or paired-student discussion--were required to write…

Lecturing is a poor method of giving instruction for Army tasks, since it is suitable for only a small segment of learners and a small number of tasks. The APSTRAT (derived from "aptitude" and "strategies") model is designed to train men at many levels of aptitude and with wide differences in educational backgrounds for a…

Program 10 of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education is a broadly based program of research into the dynamics of the absorption of "new students," here defined as students who formerly did not continue their education beyond high school into post-secondary education. The program will attempt to develop answers to the following…

No significant improvement was found in the grades of low achieving college freshmen following instruction by academically successful students trained to teach study skills. The investigator trained the study instructors--12 juniors with at least a 3.0 grade point average--in twelve 1-hour sessions. Soon after a session each study instructor spent…

Presented are a conceptual and empirical framework and two research reports on the promotion of language and social skills of handicapped preschool children through involvement with nonhandicapped peers. (DB)

One hundred and seven same-sex pairs were formed so that the tutor had greater (the status-congruent condition), equal, or lesser initial math competence than the tutee. Two weeks were devoted to tutoring; then, partners exchanged roles for two weeks. Satisfaction and perceived achievement were greater on becoming the tutor than the tutee.…

Eight years of research show there is a way to improve race relations in desegregated schools: the creation of multiracial, cooperative learning teams in classrooms. (Author/MLF)