Studied the effects of training in learning style preferences on the ability of tutors to select appropriate learning strategies for student with disabilities. Findings for 68 tutors show that tutors were more successful in creating individualized strategy plans for students after training with the learning style chart. (SLD)

Provides brief descriptions of interactive tutorial and simulation programs for reading, writing, and mathematics; and of drill-and-practice courseware packages. (DMM)

Describes how a college tutoring program uses a strategy called TEST, which takes the ideas behind effective reading and learning and applies them to interactions between the student, the tutor, and the subject. (SR)

Raises the complementary issues of faculty/tutor collaboration and tutor-writing confidentiality at writing centers by relating a serious dilemma involving a student's blatant attempt at plagiarism of an online text. Raises concerns regarding conflicting roles of the writing center in upholding itself as a safe place for students and/or as a place…

The results of college-level tutoring programs are best described as mixed. The present study was designed as an attempt to quantify the effects of being tutored at the college level. A pretest-posttest design involving the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory was used. Results support the use of tutoring. (EMK)

Describes how in the implementation of the Humanities Out There (HOT) program, two consecutive modules focused on "border" in a range of senses--national, ethnic, linguistic, literary, and even interpersonal. Discusses how the worth of this program has opened a field of communication with potentially long-term benefits for an educational community…

In a survey of 294 nursing students and 57 faculty, students equally valued lectures, tutorials, and labs for learning biosciences. Faculty differed from students regarding the value of methods and time allocated to the biosciences. Adjustments in the allocation of curriculum topics and a tutorial system to augment lectures and labs were…

Effective statistical collaboration in a multidisciplinary health research environment requires skills not taught in the usual statistics courses. Graduates often learn such collaborative skills through trial and error. In this paper, we discuss the development of a biostatistical collaboration course aimed at graduate students in a Health…

The Lake Washington School District (WA) has developed a successful peer tutoring program for elementary and secondary students. Identifies the characteristics of successful tutoring programs, how to start a program, recruitment and scheduling needs, selection of tutors and learners, and how to maintain tutor involvement. Includes a table and…

The article describes a four-week summer course in which an eight-year-old prelingually deaf boy helped undergraduate students learn sign language and the students helped him learn English print word/phrase equivalents. (DB)

Subjects (N=224) were elementary, middle, and high school special education students receiving the Gillingham tutorial program services in reading and language arts for one school year. In general, progress was made at more than one-half the expectancy for the nonspecial education student. Spelling showed the least improvement. (Author/DB)

Hearing-impaired postsecondary students' special needs include visual reinforcements, academic tutoring, and recognition of their language-related problems. Tactics suggested are (1) using qualified support faculty, (2) establishing course entry requirements, (3) using visual aids, (4) using academic tutoring, and (5) having written materials…

Addresses the need for a theoretical analysis of the peer tutoring process by discussing: definitions of the process, the psychological and educational processes in peer tutoring as a learning and teaching experience, and the conceptualization of peer tutoring as a cooperative social system and a group reward structure. (Author/ABB)

When one student tutors another, both gain. This article (1) recounts the origins of peer tutoring; (2) summarizes the relevant research; and (3) describes three programs around the country where tutoring is applied to computer education, hands-on science lessons, and basic skills instruction. (LHW)

Tutorials are an excellent method for teaching geography to college students. How to improve tutorials is discussed. (RM)