In the Franklin Square District of New York City, parents, as well as high school and college students, are helping teachers to help children. (Author)

The article describes a pupil tutoring pupil program. (BY)

Describes two successful basic new'' approaches to tutoring -- one stressing the development of an open, nonstructured relationship between students, and the other emphasizing the programed or structured tutoring that concentrates on reading and prescribes detailed steps to follow. (Author)

Author describes tutorial program she established at American River College in her Basic Writing Skills class. The specific approach, the course description, and the grading system are discussed. (DR)

The results show that students in the low category, academically, responded less well than students in the middle and high categories. Also, the student of low socioeconomic background did not demonstrate achievement advantage through exposure to the program, though the attrition study showed a holding" effect in keeping him in school. (Author/CG)

A course of instruction in psychological and psychiatric principles for tutors of pre-clinical students to prepare them to guide students' academic progress and social adjustment. (IR)

In Sunnyvale, California (the computer industry's "Silicon Valley") two teachers of elementary learning disabled (LD) students took a course in microcomputers, acquired three microcomputers with a grant, and trained the students to use computer-assisted instruction, with such results as that in one year, 37 LD students tutored 100 primary…

The study investigated the relatonship between degree or extent of special education participation and measured self-concept with 45 third-grade male students divided into three groups (students in self-contained LD classes, students provided individual tutoring, and a control group of students from regular classes). (Author/PHR)

The feasibility of an instructional management program for learning disabled (LD), incarcerated youths was examined in a comparison of peer tutors and LD teachers in a computational mathematics program for 38 LD delinquents (12 to 17 years old). Pre- and posttest results indicated no significant difference between the tutors' and teachers' groups.…

A study of the behavior of sixth graders tutoring younger children indicated that the tutors' verbal and nonverbal behavior tended to reflect the performance of the tutee. (Editor/JD)

Examines the long term results--obtained mainly in the USA--of the large scale use of individualized systems for the teaching of mathematics, concentrating on systems which use the human tutor as one of their components. Several instructional systems are compared and described, and future prospects are discussed. (JEG)

Time, money, and learning effectiveness should all be considered in evaluating an instructional system. As an illustration, the authors describe the evaluation of an individualized instructional system using tutors. (Authors/BD)