A peer tutoring program at an Appalachian university was designed to meet the needs of students with poor academic backgrounds and multiple risk factors. Tutoring patterns included dyad, small group, large group, skill based, assignment based, and question based. Qualitative evaluation data revealed that each pattern required different tutor…

Examines the pros and cons of several family-oriented initiatives offered by President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole during their 1996 campaigns. These include tuition tax credits, volunteer tutoring programs, across-the-board tax breaks, and school voucher programs. (HTH)

RISE (Reading Intervention Sans Expense) is a one-on-one reading intervention that involves maximizing human resources, not expending dollars. Tutors are high school students enrolled in a community service learning course who are trained in guided reading. Research suggests that RISE is an effective and efficient intervention that impacts all of…

Describes innovative New Mexico basic-skills tutoring program (The Scholars Club) that provides classroom teachers extra time to teach elementary students who need help. Program is funded solely from corporate gifts, foundation grants, and individual donations. (PKP)

Suggests that the correlation between writing instruction and the psychoanalytic process is most apparent in the interaction between writing center tutors and their students. Argues that the core of tutoring and psychotherapy is the interactional dynamics of a search for insight involving an intimate transference of trust and vulnerability between…

Argues that writing center tutors (who deal with fragile egos, undeveloped thought, and unfulfilled promises) must not let their opinions interfere with writing instruction. Argues that tutors must also make their students aware of other viewpoints and, if the case warrants it, overstep the bounds of objectivity in expressing those views. (RS)

Describes the training and operation of the "Write Team," a class of high school junior and senior writing coaches who help students with first- or second-draft writing before a teacher evaluates it. (RS)

Investigates how editors and reporters view writing coaches and identifies factors that affect those views. Finds that coaches are considered most effective in one-on-one work with reporters. (RS)

This study examined the effectiveness of tutoring on the achievement of college students enrolled in an individualized instruction algebra course taught in a mathematics laboratory. Findings indicated that students attending six or more tutoring sessions performed better than did students with greater initial ability who attended no tutoring…

Describes an approach for motivating at-risk students to use available peer-tutoring services. Reports that students feel more comfortable about the peer-tutoring service when tutors (rather than the teacher) give brief in-class presentations in which they describe the services offered. (RS)

Discusses collaboration in the peer writing center. Suggests that applying hierarchical and dialogic collaboration to writing centers can help to sketch out the forms of collaboration in peer tutoring, but a more fine-grained rhetorical analysis will result in richer and more precise descriptions and avoid hardbound categories and stereotypes. (RS)

Defines the Paired Reading technique and comments upon minor variations. Discusses the background to Paired Reading, and the theoretical framework for the technique. Concludes that its effects are mediated by a number of different factors, and the technique should, therefore, be widely philosophically acceptable. (SR)

Offers a narrative based on a real event, in the form of a "docustory," describing that moment when teaching worked--when, in an instructional setting, communication was "perfect,""best," or "excellent." Describes how, in a one-room country school where "buddy assignments" were common, a second-grade boy helped a third grader to finally understand…

Considers the ramifications of the terms "consultant" and "tutor" as applied to writing center personnel. Outlines the benefits of embracing the use of the term consultant as more accurate of what is actually done in writing centers. (HB)

Finds that the effectiveness of the "Pause, Prompt, and Praise" procedure varied according to the method of analysis used: subjective interpretation of gain scores indicated that the procedure was the most effective treatment for both tutees and tutors; the ANOVA indicated that the tutoring experience was effective; whereas the more rigorous…