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Burts, Maureen E. – 1990
This practicum report describes a staff development program that was designed to implement a peer tutoring program in which nonhandicapped students instructed three trainable mentally handicapped peers in a regular high-school setting. The program was implemented to increase the achievement of handicapped students in basic academic skills that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, High Schools, Individualized Instruction
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Direct linkPainter, Clare; Coffin, Caroline; Hewings, Ann – Distance Education, 2003
This paper describes a qualitative study of asynchronous electronic conferencing by three tutorial groups on the same postgraduate course ("Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide"), forming part of an MA in Applied Linguistics (via Distance Education) at the Open University, UK. The groups varied in the degree to which…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Educational Technology, Tutors, Open Universities
