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WEITZMAN, DAVID L. – 1964
THIS TUTORING EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO PROVIDE A PLACE OUTSIDE OF REGULAR SCHOOL HOURS WHERE STUDENTS COULD RECEIVE ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION AND PRACTICE, AND TO CREATE AN EXPERIMENTAL SITUATION IN WHICH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A TUTORING PROGRAM AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL COULD BE EVALUATED. TUTORING WAS DONE BY JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS FROM…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, After School Education, Group Experience
Download full textRodrigues, Raymond J.; White, Robert H. – 1981
As part of a series of sharply focused booklets based on concrete educational needs, this booklet is designed to provide teachers with the best educational theory and research on mainstreaming non-English speaking children in regular classrooms and to present descriptions of classroom activities that are related to the described theory. Section…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Rosenbaum, Laurie K.; And Others – 1980
Current research suggests that a lack of involvement and a sense of powerlessness pervades many aspects of life for the inner city poor, including childrearing. In the late 1960's, as the movement to involve parents in their children's schools grew, an assumption took root that such participation would help alleviate parents' feelings of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Disadvantaged, Inner City, Locus of Control
Schoeller, Arthur W. – 1968
The Volunteer Reading Tutoring Program in center city Milwaukee during the 1967-1968 school year was a mutual project of the School of Education Reading Clinic and the Center for Community Leadership of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The program was organized by two urban specialists and a reading consultant to meet the expressed reading…
Descriptors: After School Education, Community Programs, Consultants, Cooperative Programs
Newman, Harold – 1968
Reported is a project for 38 teachers, enrolled in a graduate school reading course, who participated in a Title I summer reading program for 313 low achieving ghetto students. The teacher-graduate students served as tutors four days per week and attended college sessions on the fifth day. These sessions were devoted to instruction in the use of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Disadvantaged Youth, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1975
This guide contains a list of hints for tutors of English as a Second Language who may be tutoring: (1) an adult needing to learn English in order to live and work in this country, or (2) a student needing to learn English in order to go to school. The list of hints is followed by sample lessons intended to show the kinds of things which can be…
Descriptors: Cambodian, English (Second Language), Individual Instruction, Indochinese
George, John E.; Prugh, Linda S. – 1974
This paper reports on an intensive, highly-structured, one-to-one tutoring system used as a model program. The "Tutor-Student System in Beginning Reading," the basic instructional material for the model program, was developed to train tutors to say and do what the reading specialist normally says and does when teaching reading in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Chow, Stanley H.L.; And Others – 1976
Thirty-eight teachers and 96 low achieving students from 10 elementary schools were involved in a study designed to evaluate the effects of an inservice training course, "Tutoring in Mathematics", on teachers in mainstreaming settings. Course effects were defined in terms of specific tutoring skills and teacher attitudes about working with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Elliott, David L. – 1972
The program described in this paper illustrates the extension of teaching to parents and older children. Project 88, so-called because of the 88 children who were involved during the first year of the program in 1969, is a parent participation program that included a kindergarten, a first grade, and an interage 4-5-6 combination at the Castro…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Experimental Programs
Baltimore County Board of Education, Towson, MD. – 1974
One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," this program is designed to help primary level children achieve success in language development before a pattern of failure is established. The program began in 1969 and serves 219 first, second, and third graders. The program employs diagnostic measures to identify each…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Individualized Reading, Language Acquisition, Learning Modalities
Crenshaw Community Youth Study Association, Los Angeles, CA. – 1968
Eighty high school students from economically deprived homes in Los Angeles were trained to tutor third through sixth graders in reading. Selection of tutors was based on low reading achievement scores and teacher recommendation. Twenty middle-income youths also participated, as well as other volunteers. Tutors were trained in four 3-hour sessions…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, High School Students
Fleishman, Joel L. – 1965
Described here in extensive detail is the second year of a talent development summer high school at Yale University. A compensatory program was provided for 117 underachieving Negro and white boys, judged to have unrealized intellectual potential, who came from both urban and rural areas. The report discusses the students, teachers, tutors, and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Compensatory Education, Course Content, Curriculum
Levine, Murray; Donlan, Kaye – 1966
A tutoring program developed for first grade inner city children, employing student teachers as tutors, is evaluated in this report. Tutoring had no discernible effect on performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability. However, tutored children were placed in the highest reading group, and were rated as having completed the first…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
Gentner, Donald R.; And Others – 1974
A computer-based system, called the FLOW system, was used in experimental studies of human learning. The student learns a simple computer language from printed instructions and can run his programs interactively on the FLOW system. An automated tutor simulates a human tutor who watches over the student and gives help when the student has…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Education, Experimental Teaching
Davis, Alan; And Others – 1974
The development of an interactive error analysis system for a highly interactive programing language compiler is explored. A project is underway at the University of Illinois to automate the teaching of elementary computer science programing language courses by utilizing the PLATO IV interactive computer system. One goal of the project is to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Science Education
