Current practice of telephone instruction across Britain's Open University undergraduate program is reviewed, based on regional data collected. Factors affecting the development of telephone tutoring and issues in its appropriateness are reviewed. (MSE)

Compared a peer model and professional model for teaching study skills to college freshmen. Subjects in both models significantly improved study skills relative to attention and waiting-list control groups. The peer model was as effective as the professional model in study-skills change. (Author/BEF)

Concludes that a systematically organized program of group counseling and tutoring did not produce significant changes in the attitudes, reading ability, and grade point averages of academically deficient students who had returned to college after military service. (FL)

A peer tutorial program in the basic sciences implemented at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is evaluated. The grades of students receiving peer tutorials were analyzed and questionnaires were mailed to each participant soliciting their evaluation of services received. Future cost-benefit evaluations are planned. (Author/MLW)

The author discusses the impact of the computer upon education and describes specific applications of automation for agricultural education, including drill and practice, testing, simulation, and student records maintenance. (SK)

A program of peer tutoring for language and speech handicapped primary English school children is described. Results showed that the program has promise as most children demonstrated improvement in conversational skills. (PHR)

Profiles of four learning disabled (LD) adults are presented and academic as well as counseling and emotional support intervention approaches are described. Problems for LD adults include cost of tutorial services and the inadequacy of career and vocational training services geared for them. (CL)

A description of the various forms of academic assistance available to University of Akron students: course tutoring, emergency tutoring, perspective tutoring, structural tutoring, follow-up tutoring, and referral tutoring. (SJL)

The article describes a mainstreamed program for 19 educable mentally retarded students (ages 16 to 22 years) involving a tutoring staff of high school students. (PHR)

Describes a program using student tutors who give other students help in reading skills. (HOD)

Describes two systems that incorporate tutoring elements into pre-existing software packages: one supporting Geometer's Sketchpad and the other Microsoft Excel. An analysis of their similarities and differences provides a foundation for standardizing the components of learning environments, simplifying their creation and increasing the power of…

Describes an algorithm for developing a domain knowledge base used in a Japanese language intelligent tutoring system. The domain knowledge represents a model of the expertise required of a student for proficiency in reading "katakana," a Japanese orthography. The algorithm described can generate a knowledge base of Japanese phonological…

Suggests that one place a writing center should be is online, as a virtual space of unlimited size in the form of a "writing cooperative," a term the article defines and discusses. (TB)

Evaluated the feasibility of using classroom assistants to tutor 1st-grade struggling readers in a school with limited financial and personal resources. Comparison of intervention students, students in traditional tutoring, and control students indicated that, although equivalent at the year's start, both intervention groups outperformed the…

The academic performance of first-semester nursing students who attended 5 or more (n=18) or fewer than 5 (n=19) tutorials was compared. A significant relationship was found between grades in prerequisite science courses and first-semester performance. Those who attended fewer tutorials had higher prerequisite course grades. (Contains 17…