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Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Known primarily for its tutoring and testing of grade-school and high-school students, for-profit Sylvan Learning Systems has developed interests in distance education, teacher education, English-language training, and college-level study outside the United States. The company is consciously stepping up its presence in areas associated with higher…
Descriptors: Competition, Distance Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Direct linkDismukes, Delisa; Yarbrough, Sondra; Zenanko, Marsha; Zenanko, Mike – TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 2004
In this paper, an early component of the teacher education practicum program in the College of Education and Professional Studies at Jacksonville State University is described. This program includes an on-campus one-on-one tutorial that is facilitated through the Teaching/Learning Center (T/LC). The T/LC was established so that the JSU College of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Secondary Education
Download full textBurris, Berlean M. – 1990
The purpose of the project is to facilitate academically disadvantaged nursing students' success in a baccalaureate nursing program. The program's three main components are student support services, faculty development, and peer tutoring. Student services include diagnostic testing, group sessions, individual tutoring as needed, special workshops…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Patton, James R.; Polloway, Edward A. – 1988
The purpose of this chapter is to review the major curricular orientations which can be found in special education settings for students with mental disabilities. Program orientations differ along two primary dimensions: the amount of time students spend in special settings or with special education personnel, and the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Curriculum, Educational Practices
Buchanan, Harriette C. – 1989
The Videotutoring via AppalNet project at Appalachian State University in North Carolina offers supplementary, tutorial assistance to students in certain high risk courses such as history, biology, and mathematics. This program enables instructors to tape test review sessions which are broadcast live and then later rebroadcast at other times on…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Closed Circuit Television, College Instruction, College Students
Mitchell Coll. of Advanced Education, Bathurst, New South Wales (Australia). – 1983
A report is given of the development in Australia of telephone tutorials for small group instruction of isolated students with and without the assistance of loudspeaking telephones. The following topics are covered: (1) why use telephone tutorials; (2) location of telephone tutorial centers; (3) equipment; (4) unit and staff selection; (5) pilot…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Schaier, Barbara T., Ed. – 1979
Some common problems faced by administrators developing tutoring programs in postsecondary education institutions--development of program goals, how to select and train tutors, and evaluating and monitoring program effectiveness--are addressed in this booklet. In the first of four sections, eight articles address the purpose and design of various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Study Centers, Individual Instruction, Learning Laboratories
Brown, George D., Jr.; Ladd, George T. – 1974
To achieve economy in the teaching of earth sciences, an audiovisual-tutorial program was designed in the pattern of a simulated field trip. Twelve weekly exercises combining slides, filmstrips, and audiotapes were produced and tested on an experimental group of 50 students, who also received one lecture a week. The program was evaluated and…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Costs, Earth Science
Barr, Avron; And Others – 1975
The BASIC Instructional Program (BIP) is an interactive problem-solving laboratory that offers tutorial assistance to students solving introductory programing problems in the BASIC language. After a brief review of the rationale and origins of the BIP instructional system, the design and implementation of BIP's curriculum information network are…
Descriptors: Branching, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development
PDF pending restorationMissouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Instruction. – 1975
The 1974-75 program aimed to: raise or maintain the rate of gain in computational and communicational skills of each student in the tutorial program; improve the computational and communicational skills of each student in the "Career Development" program; increase each "Career Development" student's awareness of, specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment
Stansfield, Charles – 1976
The evaluation of the first year of the English as a Second Language Tutorial Program of Boulder Valley Public Schools included on-site observations, interviews with coordinators and teachers, a linguistic evaluation of each student (elementary and secondary levels), a classroom teacher's questionnaire, a parents' questionnaire, and a tutor's…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
PDF pending restorationWalton, Mildred L. – 1976
The purpose of this practicum is to develop a program for the utilization of retired-teacher volunteers, the format of which was designed to provide enrichment experiences to assist gifted and talented elementary school students, particularly in the fields of oral expression and music. The data from questionnaires and evaluators suggest that…
Descriptors: Advanced Programs, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 2000
This paper provides an overview of Reading Recovery, a preventative one-on-one tutoring program that targets first-grade students whose reading skills place them in the lowest 10-20% at their school. First implemented in the United States in 1986, by 1995-96, the program was being used by over 9,000 schools in 2,940 districts. Key components of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Grade 1, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedHobsbaum, Angela; And Others – Oxford Review of Education, 1996
Explores the applicability of "scaffolding" (adults providing support for children in tasks they cannot learn on their own) in the Reading Recovery program. Reading Recovery is an intervention program consisting of daily half-hour lessons taught by a teacher trained to diagnose and respond to reading disabilities. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMiller, Sidney R.; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1995
This article describes a federally funded model self-determination project for students with severe emotional disabilities/behavioral disorders (SED/BD). The project promotes self-determination through instruction in problem solving, self-assertiveness, and self-management skills, and utilizes cross-age peer tutoring involving college students…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Disorders, College Students, Cross Age Teaching
