A peer tutoring approach can combine handicapped and nonhandicapped learners in a way that decreases prejudice toward the handicapped students. The importance of administrator and staff support is stressed. (CL)

Three severely retarded adolescents were successfully taught a 26-step photocopying task by a moderately retarded peer within a multiple-baseline design. The peer trainer was taught to demonstrate the target task to the trainees, contingently praise correct responses, and provide correction for errors. (Author/CL)

The paper presents a model for developing a special educational program for pregnant and parenting teens, with a rationale for its effectiveness. The curriculum is outlined, and program logistices are covered, including selection of leaders; recruitment, utilization and supervision of peer helpers; and evaluation of the program. (Author/CL)

Results of using high status peers to tutor socially unpopular peers indicated signficant increases in daily accuracy rates of tutored subjects, slight positive improvements in the sociometric standing of low status peers; immediate increase in the number of positive social contacts, and decreased frequency of negative social interactions between…

Three studies involving 128 elementary students indicated that classwide peer tutoring, compared to teacher-mediated procedures, produced more student academic responding and higher weekly scores on spelling, arithmetic, and vocabulary tests. Findings were replicated with manipulations of content taught/tested. (CL)

Describes a successful program in which handicapped students of all kinds are included in a regular school. A prominent part of the program is the peer tutoring given the handicapped students. (IRT)

This study examines the suspected positive outcomes of participating as a volunteer in a peer education program. To address a need for empirical studies, the authors conducted a qualitative evaluation of 21 narratives written by graduating educators. Three raters analyzed these narratives through content analysis, supported by strong inter-rater…

Students should not learn statistical concepts in isolation; statistics and data analysis invite conversations concerning which analysis to use and why, what was found and why, and what results mean and why. To emphasize the importance of this learning in common, a college teacher requires students to collaborate on research projects from…

Four senior female students presented seminars in human sexuality to freshmen coeds. The seminar topics were (1) petting and intercourse, (2) masturbation, (3) venereal disease and problematic sexual behavior, and (4) abortion and sterilization. Improvement in knowledge was determined by pre- and post-course questionnaires. Student evaluations…

School systems today are rediscovering what was well-known in yesterday's one-room schools -- that tutoring of younger students by older students works. (Author/JN)

The effects of a peer tutoring procedure on the spelling behavior of a mainstreamed elementary school learning disabled student were investigated. Overall results indicated that the S obtained greater accuracy on the spelling tests during the peer tutoring than baseline condition. Both the tutor and the tutored student claimed improved spelling.…

The study investigated the effects of a peer tutoring package on the instructional performance of 12 behaviorally disordered adolescents directly trained by their three teachers and subsequent effects on the performance of their learners. Learner performance on daily spelling tests increased considerably when intervention in the form of peer…

The study involving six developmentally disabled children (four and five years old) investigated the effectiveness of peer modeling. A peer or friend from the same regular classroom was selected for each child for tutoring on a sessional basis in a multipurpose center. (Author/SB)

Describes various programs in which students are tutored or counseled by other students. Discusses the advantages of such an approach for both tutors and tutees. (GC)

Describes the use of reversal peer tutoring to change powerlessness, low academic achievement, and negative attitudes toward school and/or self among seventh and eighth grade students. (Author/DB)