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Peer reviewedKennedy, John W. – Policy Review, 1996
Describes the mentorship programs of the Midtown Education Foundation (MEF), Chicago (Illinois), an initiative that began as an outreach of the Catholic Opus Dei movement. The MEF emphasis on biblically based character development, taught by role models, and embedded in an academic curriculum, is very popular. Early evaluation indicates that best…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Education, Catholic Educators, Community Programs
Peer reviewedCobb, Jeanne B. – Reading Horizons, 2001
Describes a program in which preservice teachers served as tutors for at-risk first, second, and third graders in a tutorial model incorporating play and phonological awareness activities using puppets and comprehension strategy instruction using manipulatives. Finds that the program improved reading achievement for children at the first grade…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy
Direct linkSchmitz, Dawn M.; Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke – Research Strategies, 2005
The Global News VILLAGE (Virtual Information Literacy Learning and Growing Environment) is an online tutorial developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to help undergraduates learn how to use the library to find current information about global events and issues. Supporting the interdisciplinary Global Studies curriculum, the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Tutorial Programs, Information Literacy, Programmed Tutoring
Download full textHassler, Abby – Inquiry, 2005
The author details a Perkins Grant-funded project of the Medical Education Center at Northern Virginia Community College that is designed to increase student retention by teaching students to identify and to use their learning style preference(s). (Contains 1 chart.)
Descriptors: Medical Education, Cognitive Style, Study Skills, School Holding Power
de Silva, Deema – 1998
This report describes activities of the Student Support Services Program at Wichita State University (Kansas) during 1997-1998, the second year of a five-year federal grant. The program is designed to meet the special needs of limited-income and first-generation college students, and includes study-skill development, peer tutoring, and academic…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Outcomes Assessment, First Generation College Students, Higher Education
Weinsheimer, Joyce – 1998
A three-year longitudinal study of student support service programs prepared for the U.S. Department of Education indicated that peer tutoring during the first year of college has a positive and statistically significant impact on students in each of three outcome areas: grades, credits, and retention, and that participation in the first year has…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College Students, Dropout Research
RPISE Reporter, 1988
Each issue of "PRISE Reporter" offers a feature article on educating handicapped students and provides descriptions of other information sources, continuing and completed research, and promising practices. The December 1987 issue contains an article by Martha Thurlow titled "A Skeleton in Our Closet? The Special Education…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Consultation Programs, Cooperative Learning, Disabilities
Carr, Richard; And Others – 1990
One of the University of Minnesota's two writing tutorial programs, Composition 1013, constitutes the second quarter of freshman composition and is designed as an option for students with specialized writing needs, such as students of English as a Second Language (ESL). The course is perceived by students as remedial, and instructors do not feel…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Coleman, Eve – 1987
The investigation of peer response groups in a basic college writing class was one method of charting the development of students' writing skills over the span of a semester to see if collaborative learning was beneficial to the writing process. Response groups were tape-recorded and observed, and members were interviewed. By the fourth week of…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Group Instruction, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
Pastori, Sharon; And Others – 1986
This review of the activities of LEAP (Literacy for Every Adult Project), a free, basic skills tutorial program for adults, is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides the most recent assessment of the LEAP microcomputer learning center, which was funded in 1985 through a Library Services and Construction Act grant, and Part 2 details the early…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Hall, June-Ellen – 1985
Cross-peer tutoring in English as a second language, in which an under-achieving native English-speaking student tutors a limited-English-speaking student, focuses on learning as a cooperative undertaking and addresses both the process and the outcome of learning. In one such project, student tutors were chosen according to their characteristics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Individualized Instruction, Limited English Speaking
Middlesex County Coll., Edison, NJ. – 1982
A program entitled Project COPS (Career Oriented Peer Tutoring System) is a comprehensive peer tutoring and advisement approach that was undertaken to improve student retention at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey. The principal goal of the project was to reach potentially unsuccessful entering freshmen students and to offer them…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research
de Silva, Deemathie – 1984
This report is a comprehensive description of a Federally-funded Special Services program known as Operation Success at Wichita State University. The program began in 1970 and is designed to assist students from low income families and/or who are the first in their families to attend college. Part I of the report describes program philosophy and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, College Students, Cultural Activities
Wade, Pamela J. – 1982
The manual provides an overview of the Burris-Ball State Migrant Education Program and its program components. A general description of the tutorial component, designed to meet the unique educational needs and interests of elementary and secondary migrant students not serviced by other migrant education programs, precedes an explanation of the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Edwards, Lois F.; Bell, Bernadette S. – 1985
This manual describes the implementation of a demonstration project at Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC) to: (1) develop an individual education plan to enable adult students with a specific learning disability to reach an 8th grade level of proficiency; (2) recruit volunteers and train them as tutors; and (3) develop a series of in-service…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges
