This article presents a Web 2.0 approach for the arrangement of peer tutoring in online learning. In online learning environments, the learners' expectations of obtaining frequent, one-to-one support from their teachers tend to increase the teachers' workloads to unacceptably high levels. To address this problem of workload a self-organised peer…

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…

Background/Context: A review of the literature demonstrates that grade retention often fails to improve the academic and socioemotional outcomes of retained students. Although little empirical work on peer tutoring has focused specifically on retained students, the literature suggests that those students who act as peer tutors often experience…

The effects of a systematic study period, peer tutoring, and contractual consequences on the spelling performance of six junior high learning disabled students were investigated. Ss were scoring poorly or inconsistently on unit spelling tests. An intervention period of 2 to 4 weeks consisted of daily exposure to words through a peer tutor and…

Two studies of dyadic learning with college students are reported and instructional applications are suggested. (Author)

This study indicated that two-way, or reciprocal, peer tutoring is superior to tutoring by an adult in helping elementary remedial readers. (MKM)

Effects of a peer-mediated versus an antecedent prompt condition on the rate of independent movement and appropriate behavior of five handicapped preschool children during three classroom transition periods were evaluated. Results indicated that the antecedent prompt condition was superior. (Author/DB)

The effects of a peer previewing system on the oral reading skills of three learning-disabled students (ages 8 and 9) were examined. Results indicated that peer-previewing led to a marked decrease in the oral reading errors of all subjects. Reasons for the effectiveness of the procedure as well as its advantages are presented. (Author/DB)

The concept of student team learning is described, with details on cooperative learning techniques developed for reorganizing classrooms into exciting, high-achieving places. (CB)

The article describes services for mildly handicapped/mainstreamed students of the Extraordinary HOMEwork Line (a homework hotline), face-to-face tutoring, and family tutoring workshops. (CL)

Two autistic children (8 and 5 years old) were paired with normal peers who, after pretraining sessions, taught community skills to the autistic children. Results demonstrated that no identified skills were acquired during baseline and modeling conditions. However, direct instruction of each child by a peer tutor resulted in learning and…

The study measured social acceptance experienced by fourth through sixth-grade mentally retarded students who acted as tutors of their regular class peers. Results showed that tutors interacted with regular class peers more often than handicapped non-tutors and suggested that handicapped students would make more personal/social progress with…

Suggestions are offered for organizing and implementing a peer tutoring program for drilling sixth, seventh, and eighth grade remedial students in basic math facts. (CL)

The best way to teach psychology majors interviewing skills is through supervised practice. How one teacher used graduates of his interviewing techniques course as peer trainers in subsequent courses is described. (RM)

Results of a study comparing effects of working alone, working in pairs, and serving as peer tutors on the mathematics achievement of 44 mildly handicapped high school students revealed that peer tutoring resulted in significant mathematics gains and gains in rate of achievement. (CL)