This study investigated the effectiveness of the neurological impress method (NIM), the language experience approach (LEA), and classroom teaching as remedial reading treatments for disabled readers. Subjects referred to the Purdue Reading Clinic were screened to determine whether they met criteria for the study and were randomly assigned to the…

The Mutually Aided Learning (MAL) program in Cherry Creek School District, Englewood, Colorado, is a special program that high school students take for credit. Planning for the general program began a year before the course was to be taught. The program, now self-supporting, has two major expenses--released time for the elementary and secondary…

Reported is a survey of types of handicaps served by special programs for physically handicapped, homebound, and hospitalized children in Florida. The information represents 215 full time and hourly teachers. Types of handicaps served are listed, ranked, and number of cases given. Cerebral palsy is reported to be the most common type of handicap…

The Communication I course described in this paper effectively incorporates peer Teaching Assistants selected from within the community college environment. The course consists of: (1) a Writing Skills Lab covering twelve areas of basic skills, staffed by an instructor and five peer Teaching Assistants; and (2) a Writing Skills Workshop in which…

This paper reviews experiments conducted at CEMREL in St. Louis, on individual and group reinforcement for tutoring. It summarizes results on how reward structures relate to effective student cooperation and how rewards interact with other variables such as subject area, classroom size, and age. Further research issues are proposed. (SJL)

A discussion of the implementation of peer tutoring programs in the elementary school with emphasis on the choice of tutor, tutor training, and supervision of the tutoring pair. Advantages of peer tutoring are outlined. (GO)

In order to promote the study of theory in revolutionary cadre training schools, emphasis is on acknowledging the significance of Marxist theory. Tutoring and class schedules foster conscientious study. Physical labor is part of the learning process. (AV)

The group dynamics of a peer tutoring program using three (instead of the traditional two) students helps learning-impaired students in both academic achievement and social development. Two students are learners, while the third serves as teacher. (CB)

Students from a high school psychology class were subjects in a study of the effect of tutorials versus study time on student performance. Tutoring produced content knowledge for tutors who worked with partners. (LMO)

Uses case studies of intensive writing courses in government, history, and computer science to explain the differences between the disciplinary contexts for writing, and to help tutors in their work with students from those disciplines. (RS)

Twenty-four empirical investigations of tutoring interventions with learning disabled students were evaluated. Although all authors favored tutoring, equivocal results were reported with few substantiated reports of social benefits to tutors or tutees. Methodological problems associated with such research in field settings are identified. A chart…

Congress is considering establishing a Literacy Corps that will enable college students to volunteer a few hours a week as assistant teachers to students in nearby public schools in return for college credit. How this program would work is described. (CB)

"Morgens geht Fritz zur Schule" is a software tutorial and drill program, designed for use with the Apple II computer, which provides practice with German prepositions for students in a beginning German language course. (CB)

A total of 40 socially rejected, low-achieving fourth-graders were randomly assigned to one of four clinical intervention conditions: academic skills training (AS); social skills training (SS); a combinations of AS and SS training; and control. Achievement and sociometric scores were obtained at the end of third, fourth, and fifth grades. AS…

Discusses the role and activities of student tutors in an undergraduate organic chemistry course. Points out that such tutors must be used as a complement to the classroom lecturer, not as a substitute. (JN)