This handbook presents the key components of an urban home-based tutoring program for adults. It updates information contained in the fiscal year 1983 handbook. Section 1 answers questions regarding what home-based tutoring is, the need, the population served, curriculum design, special clients (mentally retarded, General Educational Development…

An experiment was conducted to determine if a mathematics laboratory would reduce the withdraw/failure (W/F) rate in freshman mathematics courses. Fifty-six students in two course sections of analytic geometry were designated as comparative experimental groups T-1 and T-2, with 29 subjects in T-1 receiving only tutoring, and 27 in T-2 receiving…

In order to determine how to enable teachers to become more effective in individualizing reading instruction, 75 preservice teachers who were enrolled in a general education course were observed as they tutored second and third grade children in reading twice a week for one semester. A brief analysis of the literature on the behavior of teachers…

An evaluation of Los Angeles City College's Learning Skills Center (LSC) was conducted in order to ascertain the nature of the LSC's outcomes. The LSC offers students an opportunity to participate in diagnostic and prescriptive open-entry open-exit programs in an individualized setting. Types of programs available through the LSC include…

Recent research in the many aspects of reading is reviewed. (JH)

Based on a project conducted by Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA), this guide contains procedures for creating humanities reading materials for adult new readers (fifth grade level or below). For successfully conducting the project, the guide presupposes that a coalition of librarians, literacy program personnel (learners, tutors, and literacy…

The Learning Assistance Program (LAP) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center was designed to create an inter-school, inter-program network of students and faculty. The aim is to promote a Health Sciences Center-wide approach to help high risk students negotiate high risk courses and to maximize the learning potential of all students…

Intended as an overview for English department faculty with no direct experience in teaching freshman composition, this report contains a general account of the origin, basic features, and current direction of using tutorial methods in freshman composition classes. The five sections of the report provide the following information: (1) the history…

One of four reports describing the basic skills programs in writing, reading, English as a second language, and mathematics at the City University of New York (CUNY), this volume describes the reading programs--including administrative structure, course structure and content, and faculty--for nine senior colleges and eight community colleges in…

This paper provides a summary of information and ideas relevant to the use of computers in science education, describes a variety of uses and strategies, discusses advantages and disadvantages of specific applications, and explores the decision-making process surrounding computer instruction implementation. Uses and strategies which are described…

TO REPLICATE PREVIOUS STUDIES OF SELF-CONCEPT AND TEACHING ATTITUDES IN STUDENT TEACHERS, 2 GROUPS OF WOMEN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION STUDENTS WERE TESTED ON A SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALE BEFORE AND AFTER TUTORING AND PRACTICE TEACHING EXPERIENCE. ONE GROUP DID PRACTICE TEACHING IN MIDDLE-TO UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS SUBURBAN SCHOOLS. ALTHOUGH THIS SAMPLE…

THE EMPHASIS IN THIS STUDY WAS ON EXPLORING MEANS OF MAKING PROGRAMS MORE RESPONSIVE TO INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AMONG LEARNERS AND ON DEVELOPING RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR WRITING AND IMPROVING PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAMED COURSE IN BEGINNING SPANISH SELECTED FOR THE STUDY WAS DESIGNED FOR USE BY STUDENTS WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF A TEACHER. IT ATTEMPTS…

A peer tutoring program was implemented in a nongraded innercity school in an effort to decrease discipline problems--specifically fighting--and to increase the reading comprehension of both tutors and tutees. The target group consisted of 25 intermediate and junior high school students who tutored 25 intermediate and primary school students. The…

This study focused on the improvement of traditional two-way communication processes in correspondence education through variations on the uses of postal communications, reinforcing the feedback sent by mail with systematic telephone calls, and combinations of mail and face-to-face contacts; the primary focus was correspondence education combined…