Provides resources for teachers who wish to establish programs of peer or cross-age tutoring. (FL)

The effectiveness of peer-centered and instructor-centered formats for teaching-assistant led discussion sections in chemistry was examined. Students with interpersonally oriented learning styles benefited more from interactive learning opportunities while those with other learning styles gained more from impersonal media such as textbooks.…

Describes two introductory college-level geography programs which use undergraduate students as peer teachers. In a human geography course, they act as small-group leaders in role-playing simulations. In a physical geography course, peer teachers serve as tutors for mastery learning. Socio-psychological, pedagogical, economic, and political…

Five contributors discuss the following topics: bringing comics to life through readers theatre, peer tutoring to improve word attack and comprehension skills, using storytelling to increase reading comprehension skills on Okinawa, beginning reading in Italy, and using remedial reading students as tutors for younger students. (FL)

Recent findings in studies of moral education indicate that "plus-one" teachers, who function as discussion leaders and pitch moral arguments one stage above the majority of the class, are not necessary for students' moral growth. Teachers should be viewed as models and facilitators rather than producers of moral reasoning. (Author/WD)

The coworker approach as it has been applied to a graduate field education unit is described. This approach was initiated as a treatment aid in meeting the needs of large multiproblem families and groups as well as serving as a form of observed interview for beginning graduate students. (Author/MLW)

Research overwhelmingly supports the usefulness of cooperative learning for improving the social outcomes of schooling, such as intergroup relations, attitudes toward mainstreamed students, and general positive relations between students. (Author)

Describes a successful and current approach to training peer facilitators. Includes (1) an advanced course in small group leadership as a prerequisite for the leadership experience and (2) a seminar in leadership conducted during the leadership experience. (PD)

Recommends having students proofread each other's papers, thereby increasing student incentive to write carefully and reducing the amount of teacher time spent correcting mechanical errors. (TJ)

Designed for personnel assigned as instructors in Marine Corps formal schools, the 4-week course described is characterized by a closely knit peer and faculty operation which leaves little chance for the student to falter. (Editor/HD)

Examined whether supplemental instruction offered to first-year medical students reduced the number of examination failures. Significant increases in mean test scores were achieved by at-risk students admitted to the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1994 who participated in the Medical Scholars program, compared with similar…

Peer education has been promoted by college health service health education programs for years. This paper questions some assumptions that underlie the use of peer health educators, highlights problems associated with training peer paraprofessionals, and discusses program evaluation, noting ways to work effectively with students to enhance health…

Discusses a sixth-grade assignment to conduct an interview with someone to find out as much as possible about that individual's profession as well as ways in which mathematics are used in that profession. Peer teaching, communication, and reasoning were natural consequences of this activity. (AIM)

This article describes an intervention study designed to enhance the skills needed in the planning and writing of stories by an adolescent with autism who was using augmentative and alternative communication and working with a typical peer. Overall, the student's postintervention story was dramatically improved over his preintervention story.…

A study examined effects of peer-assisted learning strategies (PALS) and curriculum-based measurement (CBM) on the mathematics performance of 92 secondary students with disabilities. PALS/CBM was implemented twice weekly and CBM weekly for 15 weeks. PALS/CBM students improved their computation math skills significantly more than controls, but not…