Describes cross-age tutoring experiment in which sixth graders provided individual help and companionship to first-graders. Tutor gains were subject reinforcement, extended creativity, and meaningful personal relationships. (AJ)

Argues that peer-assisted learning is a good option for teachers concerned with providing as much individual help as possible to their students. Describes one such peer tutoring program. (FL)

Describes a program using student tutors who give other students help in reading skills. (HOD)

A cross-age tutoring program conducted in an elementary school is described. Part I of the report concerns reasons for instituting such a program. Benefits are predicted for (1) the tutor, in improving his/her attitudes toward learning, (2) for the tutee, by promoting a positive relationship with an older child, (3) for the teachers, in providing…

Describes a six-week experimental cross-age tutoring program involving seventh and eighth graders deficient in reading skills as tutors of kindergarten through sixth grade students also exhibiting deficiencies in reading skills. (TO)

This is a brief description of a successful small scale team approach to helping failing students. Success is attributed to providing low achievers with special attention, and high achievers with a creative outlet for their intellectual energies. (CJ)

This pamphlet describes the key elements necessary for a successful schoolwide or classroom-based tutoring program, explores the benefits for tutors and tutees, and explains the steps that are necessary for the effective training of tutors. The first section looks at peer and cross-age tutoring, including terms and definitions and the benefits of…

This book is for the use of teachers, parents, and administrators who are planning to initiate a learning-by-tutoring project in their schools. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the…

Children teaching other children is not a new idea, but it is an effective way for older children to have a chance to help younger children and to learn effective methods of helping. This booklet describes numerous effective tutoring programs while outlining the origins of cross-age helping programs, pointing out traps to watch for, and noting key…

This document reports a 1967 summer pilot program designed to serve as a model for uniting the Youth Tutoring Youth concept with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. An introductory section overviews the project in which 200 14- and 15-year olds who were not achieving well in school and who had fallen below grade level in reading were trained to serve as…

An experiment is described in educational program design involving the use of seventh-grade students in developing and implementing a K-6 cross-grade tutorial/enrichment program in health education. (MJB)

Implication is that Campbell's Design can be a useful technique for investigators. (Authors)