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Download full textFeldman, Robert S.; Allen, Vernon L. – 1972
Recent evidence suggests that the use of children acting as tutors for their peers may prove beneficial to the tutor as well as to the tutee. There is now abundant, unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence, and some controlled experimental work, which suggests that the tutor benefits greatly from his involvement in teaching. The enactment of the role of…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Peer Groups, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring
Allen, Vernon L.; Feldman, Robert S. – 1972
Low-achieving fifth-grade children either taught a third grader or studied alone for a series of daily sessions. At the end of the two-week period, the low-achievers' performance was significantly better in the tutoring condition than in the studying condition. This showed a reversal in the direction from the initial difference between conditions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
