Annotates 11 articles that display the multiple benefits an effective writing center program provides for the entire academic community. (HOD)

Recounts a teacher's experience using a junior year student in a freshman remedial reading and writing course. Gives some qualifications to look for in a classroom aide. (HTH)

A Saturday session in the Saucon Valley School District, Hallertown (Pennsylvania), including academic tutoring and counseling, is a low-cost effective alternative to suspension. (Author/MLF)

Argues that the meanings that writing center staff members assign to the words "tutor" and "tutee" run directly counter to the common meanings for the terms. Suggests replacing "tutor" with "writing assistant,""writing consultant," or "writing fellow." Suggests replacing "tutoring" with "discussion" or "consulting." Suggests replacing the term…

Argues that one productive approach to writing tutorials is to conceive them as performances and to encourage tutors to analyze them in this way. Analyzes tape-recorded narratives from tutors about conference experiences, which raise questions about the very nature of peer tutoring and help tutors clarify their roles. (SR)

Discusses intelligent agent development environments and distance learning environments, and describes ROADS (Real-time Object-oriented Agent Development System) that has been developed and used to manage the acquisition and presentation of multimedia information in distance learning. Explains a theory of objects and gives a distance learning…

Presents an experimental verification of a hypothetical construct explaining the basic mechanism behind the behavior of an intelligent agent implemented in the Solution, Mapping, Intelligent, Learning Environment (SMILE) performance supported system. Explains the SMILE concept mapping method and its role as a problem-solving tool. (Author/LRW)

Describes GTE (Generic Tutoring Environment), an environment for developing intelligent courseware that is designed around a generic instructional knowledge-base using formalism. Discusses the instructional components of intelligent tutoring systems, including the instructional model, and how GTE approaches the instructional model from an…

This study evaluated students' daily implementation of a reciprocal peer tutoring procedure for mathematics and methods for supporting student implementation. Additionally, this study evaluated the reliability of progress monitoring data collected by students. The peer tutoring procedure was designed such that completion of each treatment…

In this article, the concept of approach related to tutor functioning in problem-based learning (PBL) is explored and the significance of a phenomenological perspective of the body in relation to learning and tutoring is investigated. The aim has been to understand the concept of approach in a context where the individual, thoughts, emotions and…

This Statistics in Brief contributes to current research by investigating the use of tutoring services among a nationally representative group of public school students enrolled in grades K-12. The report compares students in schools that have not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for 3 or more years, and were thereby enrolled in schools that…

To date, nearly all one-to-one literacy instruction is delivered in person, often in university-based reading clinic settings. This traditional tutoring format, however, has not met the needs or fit the schedules of many adolescents. Distance technology, accompanied with research that confirms literacy instructional components do remain intact,…

More than seven years ago, President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind (NCLB) into law. Sweeping calls for testing, intervening in persistently low-performing schools, and policing teacher quality made it the most ambitious legislation on K-12 schooling in American history. The law, due for congressional reauthorization in 2007, still…

In 2005, the undergraduate advisory committee at the University of Toronto Mississauga found that across all disciplines, writing proficiency was the skill weakness that generated the greatest concern. Students reported that they often found writing tasks intimidating, and suggested that effective feedback and guidance would improve their writing.…