The purpose of this instructional guide used at Roosevelt University is to provide training information about reading, literacy, writing, and adult reading instruction for tutors and tutor supervisors. After a review of the literature, the instructional guide is developed in a step-by-step workbook format that allows the future tutor to work at an…

The paper describes the background and development of HELP (Higher Education for Learning-disabled People). The HELP program located at Marshall University (West Virginia) provides testing to determine the presence of a learning disability; individual tutoring in reading, spelling, and written expression; oral tests; note-taking instruction; study…

Describes an instructional system incorporating: objectives described in advance, frequent interaction with proctors, frequent essay examinations, a self-pacing feature, high mastery requirement for each unit, and immediate feedback for each attempt; and that encourages serious efforts and maintains continual motivation. (Author/MLF)

Examines the effectiveness of peer tutors as a means of facilitating the reading achievement of other children reading below their grade placement. (Author)

In its first year, an interdisciplinary recreational aquatics program serving eight deaf blind children (3 to 18 years old) developed and sequenced individualized objectives for communication, social, and gross motor areas. Inservice training was conducted for 13 nonhandicapped high school students serving as peer tutors, who were then evaluated…

This report consists of two papers on MENUNIX, an experimental interface to the approximately 300 programs and files available on the Berkeley UNIX 4.0 version of the UNIX operating system. The first paper discusses some of the psychological concerns involved in the design of MENUNIX; the second is a tutorial user manual for MENUNIX, in which the…

Described are the development and evolution of a program using hospitalized emotionally disturbed adolescents as tutors for hospitalized elementary students. Noted is the program's beginning when one adolescent worked with a recreation staff member in the elementary program. Reviewed are such program aspects as tutor and tutee selection and…

A LEARNING DISABILITY PROGRAM WAS INTEGRATED WITH A TOTAL DISTRICT EFFORT TO MEET THE NEED FOR TUTORIAL SERVICES AMONG CHILDREN WITH EXCEPTIONAL DYSFUNCTIONS. THROUGH DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND CONTINUOUS INTERCHANGE OF INFORMATION AMONG THE SCHOOL PERSONNEL, THE RIGHT TEACHERS FOR SPECIFIC PUPIL DIFFICULTIES WERE CHOSEN. CUMULATIVE RECORDS AND…

INDIVIDUAL TUTORIAL SESSIONS WERE CONDUCTED WITH 42 10TH-GRADE STUDENTS IN A LARGE INNER-CITY HIGH SCHOOL, WITH THE PURPOSE OF REVISING A UNIT OF GENERAL MATHEMATICS FROM A STANDARD TEXT. THE HYPOTHESIS TESTED WAS THAT MATERIAL SO REVISED WOULD YIELD MORE LEARNING FOR STUDENTS OF THIS POPULATION THAN MATERIALS REVISED UNDER STANDARD CURRICULUM…

Reported are the responses of 27 Associated Community Teams (ACT) Harlem Domestic Peace Corpsmen to an interview following their training (18 consecutive days) to prepare them to work as assistant teachers in the After School Project in the autumn of 1964. Personal data on the Corpsmen and their responses to various questions about the tutoring…

The subject of this booklet is cross-age helping. It begins with a discussion of what cross-age helping is and why it is effective. Cross-age helping is described as a program where children teach or help other children. The older children help the younger children learn what the younger children want to know, and the younger children help the…

NLS-SCHOLAR is a prototype system that uses artificial intelligence techniques to teach computer-naive people how to use a powerful and complex editor. This new kind of computer assisted instruction system integrates systematic teaching with actual practice, keeping the user under tutorial supervision while allowing him to try out what he learns…

The grade-point average (GPA) of Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) freshmen who received tutoring through the OASIS Provosts' Tutorial Fellowship Program and EOP freshmen who did not receive such tutoring were compared at the University of California, San Diego. A one-way analysis of covariance using high school GPA, Scholastic Aptitude Test…

This document reports on a series of studies carried out concerning nonverbal behavior in peer tutoring interactions. The first study examined the encoding (enactment) of nonverbal behavior in a tutoring situation. Results clearly indicated that the tutor's nonverbal behavior was affected by the performance of the tutee. The question of whether or…