Presents step by step procedures for training tutors to work with children in an individualized reading instruction program. (RB)

Some tips on helping underqualified persons prepare for community college. Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (Editor)

A project carried out by a group of graduate social work students in a facility within a mainly black low-income area offers evidence of the effectiveness of innovative techniques, and discloses problems facing black and white staff members. (Author/ST)

Possible effects that college female students in education had on third and fourth grade male and female isolates were investigated. (NQ)

Activities, instructional methods, and some ideas from educational psychology used in tutoring a second grader in addition and subtraction are described. (DT)

A meta-analysis of findings from 65 independent evaluations of school tutoring programs showed that these programs have positive effects on the academic performance and attitudes of both tutees and their student tutors. Tutored students outperformed control students on examinations and developed positive attitudes toward the subject matter…

The ways that nonhandicapped students could become more integrally involved in the education of severely handicapped students are discussed. Four nonhandicapped peer intervention procedures are considered: peer modeling, social bids, peer reinforcement, and peer tutoring. (SEW)

Changes in the motivation and self-confidence of children participating in the Perach Project (an Israeli tutorial program) were investigated. Affective measures were administered to experimental (i.e., tutored children) and control groups during the two-year study. Pretest/posttest results indicated that tutored children performed better on…

Two instructional methods, reception and discovery, together with a control condition, were compared in terms of their effects on the performances of kindergarten children (n=72) on probability tasks. Evidence for the superiority of discovery learning was not forthcoming. (Author/PN)

Describes two techniques to give students experience in recording and shaping written prose and to provide peer tutors with coherent analyses of their tutoring experiences. (AEA)