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Download full textOliver, Helen T. – 1997
This paper describes an innovative service learning program developed at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, a historically black college in a poor rural area. Project DREAMS (Developing Responsibility through Education, Affirmation, Mentoring, and Service) involves college student volunteers serving as tutors and mentors to elementary…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Programs, College Students, Higher Education
Maynard, David A. – 1991
This document begins with a four-page performance report describing how the Camp Verde Adult Reading Program site was relocated to the Community Center Complex, and the Town Council contracted directly with the Friends of the Camp Verde Library to provide for the requirements of the program. The U.S. Department of Education grant allowed the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Federal Aid, Libraries, Literacy Education
Claywell, Gina – 1992
Writing labs should utilize the knowledge gained from a variety of fields to enhance further their programs, particularly with regard to the study of nonverbal communication. Regardless of the sincerity and importance of the tutor's suggestions, nonverbal messages often are sent to the student which undermine the session. Various channels of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cultural Context, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Gartner, Audrey; Riessman, Frank – 1993
The literature on peer tutoring indicates that gains for tutors often outdistance those of the students receiving help. Learning through teaching is a significant mechanism that provides an opportunity to reformulate and extend the use of peer tutoring. This digest discusses a new tutor-centered, peer tutoring model being designed at the Peer…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Peer Relationship
Varcadipane, Vincent N. – 1992
This report describes the process used by a small, one-building kindergarten-through-grade-six school district in New Jersey to improve the reading scores of students who had fallen below their current grade in reading. Areas of need included improving the reading scores of students in regular education, special education, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Peer Teaching
Haag, Sally B. P. – 1990
This two-part handbook is based on 5 years of experience with distance education teaching and learning courses at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). The first section, "ABC's for Tutors," looks at the tutor's responsibilities from three viewpoints: the academic duties, the administrative details, and the counselling support…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Distance Education, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Leach, Carol A. – 1993
A study determined if a paired reading program had an effect on reading achievement and reading attitude of a selected group of 10 third graders. Student pairing was based on the results of a Student Attitude Survey which was one component of portfolio assessment. Within the survey, "at-risk" readers identified "more able"…
Descriptors: Grade 3, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Peer Teaching
District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, DC. – 1993
"A Feel for Books" is a book discussion series held for adult developing readers and their teachers and tutors. Students from various literacy programs serve as hosts for the five or six sessions held yearly, and project staff and tutors serve as facilitators. This resource book describes program activities and contains selected stories…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Books
Nakabayashi, Kiyoshi; Hoshide, Takahide; Seshimo, Hitoshi; Fukuhara, Yoshimi – 1998
This paper describes the design and implementation of an object-oriented World Wide Web-based CAI (Computer-Assisted Instruction) system. The goal of the design is to provide a flexible CAI/ITS (Intelligent Tutoring System) framework with full extendibility and reusability, as well as to exploit Web-based software technologies such as JAVA, ASP (a…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Courseware, Educational Technology
Lovin, Brenda – 1990
This guide explains the duties of an Indian tutor in the Indian Education Program in Moore (Oklahoma) Public Schools and provides hints for successful tutoring. The reading section describes reading skills; explains the components of sight vocabulary skills, word analysis skills, and comprehension skills; provides checklists on general reading…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Norris, Cathleen A., Ed.; Poirot, James L., Ed. – 1991
The eight papers presented in this monograph are a result of the Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Research Workshop that was held in conjunction with the 1990 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). The intent of the workshop was to provide a unique forum for researchers to share ideas in a special area of educational computing. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Critical Thinking, Educational Research
Johns, Jerry L. – 1992
Reading clinics that are part of the service mission of a college or university evolved out of a medical model. Such clinics serve as research centers to investigate and study readers at risk, offer training facilities for undergraduate and/or graduate students who seek to gain expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of reading difficulties, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education
Slaughter, Judith P.; And Others – 1991
Designed to reinforce initial training and to provide a collection of useful ideas for students who serve as peer tutors, this guidebook provides tips for tutors to improve the reading abilities. Following an introduction which asserts the benefits of peer tutoring programs, the guidebook is divided into two major sections: "Tutoring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Higher Education, Peer Teaching
Imel, Susan – 1994
Peer tutoring refers to the process of having learners help each other on a one-to-one basis. Two types of peer tutoring are found in adult literacy and basic education: "near peer" tutoring in which one learner is more advanced than the other and "co-peer" tutoring in which the learners are fairly well matched in skill level.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Educational Benefits, Literacy Education
Zumwalt, Judy – 1994
A study examined sex differences among peer writing tutors concerning the use of discipline-specific terms and the suggestion of revision strategies. Subjects, four male tutors, four female tutors, four male students, and four female students, were tape recorded for 11 minutes during one-on-one same-sex and opposite-sex peer conferences.…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Peer Teaching
