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Crawford, Florean D.; Cone, Richard – 1979
This book provides suggestions for teaching a minicourse in dental hygiene. It is designed to serve as a guide for a health program for upper elementary students and also as a guide to implementing a tooth tutoring program. This program trains grade five students to tutor younger students in the basic principles of dental health. Each section…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dental Health, Elementary Education, Health Education
Rosen, Sidney; And Others – 1977
This paper describes the results of some same-college-age peer tutoring experiments. It is based on a theoretical model that calls for greater satisfaction and performance to result from being assigned the role of tutor than of tutee, and under equitable (status-congruent) rather than inequitable conditions. Same-sex tutoring pairs were formed of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Elementary Education, Helping Relationship, Models
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The described inservice teacher education materials are for the use of both secondary school English teachers who are training tutors in reading and for lay tutors. An outline of the scope and sequencing of topics in the program is presented as well as a description of activities and resources involved in use of the materials. Ordering information…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials, Peer Teaching
PDF pending restorationHenkin, Leon; And Others – 1975
The "Alternatives Through Peer Teaching" program, in which ninth graders teach a special mathematics curriculum to seventh graders, was developed to raise the achievement levels of low socioeconomic level students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. This final report details the history of the program, developed by Louis…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Instructional Innovation, Junior High Schools, Low Income Groups
PDF pending restorationVacc, Nicholas – 1977
A program in which mentally retarded persons are trained to tutor their peers is described. Considered are selection and training aspects of such a program, and emphasized is the importance of the relationship between tutor and student. Tutors are explained to learn principles of establishing specific plans and keeping basic records. (CL)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation, Models
Download full textReed, Rodney – 1974
Tutoring programs are viewed as being among the most successful of the several programs designed to provide academic support in postsecondary educational institutions for students who have weak formal educational backgrounds. Peer-tutoring programs designed specifically to serve students from educationally deficient backgrounds in postsecondary…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Directories, Educationally Disadvantaged, Financial Support
Feldman, Robert S.; Allen, Vernon L. – 1974
The verbal and nonverbal behavior of sixth-grade children tutoring third-grade children was analyzed. The behavior of a sixth grade tutor in a short tutoring session was videotaped. To control the performance of the tutee, a confederate was used who acted in a predetermined manner; the tutee's performance was made to appear either very successful…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 6
Richer, Howard Marshall – 1973
The use of equivalent-age children as tutors was investigated, and the cognitive changes of these tutors was examined. All first and second grade boys at two elementary schools were administered a pretest, and all those in a transitional stage of development between non-conservation and conservation of substance were selected for inclusion in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Mathematics
Circirelli, Victor G. – 1971
This study attempted to answer the question: Is a sibling relationship associated with concept learning of a younger child taught by an older child? Each of the 120 First Grade children in the study had an older sibling in Third Grade; equal samples of 30 sibling pairs were drawn from the population of boys with older sisters, boys with older…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Elementary School Students, Interaction Process Analysis, Learning Motivation
Simmons, Joyce T.; Wasik, Barbara – 1971
Management procedures were successfully employed to decrease the frequency of first grade children leaving small instructional centers. To decrease the out-of-center behavior, access to a 30-minute special activity time was made available to different groups as a function of everyone remaining within his group instructional center. One occurrence…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Peer reviewedLarsen, Stephen C.; Ehly, Stewart – Clearing House, 1976
Attention being focused upon the teacher as a professional held increasingly accountable for a student's academic achievement has suggested that the traditional approach to instruction may need to be modified to ensure each student's success. One approach that has been demonstrated effective is peer tutoring. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Feedback, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedRizzo, Betty – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Freshmen, Disadvantaged Youth, English Instruction
Peer reviewedDavidson, Cathy N. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Starting a course by asking students to write the worst papers possible alerts them to common faults and weaknesses.
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBeck, Paula – College English, 1978
Describes how Nassau Community College uses peer tutors to help students with severe writing problems. (DD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching
Dunkin, Elizabeth; Hook, Peter – Assessment in Higher Education, 1978
Three studies of peer teaching were carried out using first-year students in a compulsory anatomy course in an occupational therapy school. The performance of the experimental peer teaching group was compared using mastery tests with a control group having lecture and discussion sessions. The experimental group continually scored higher, with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anatomy, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
