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Peer reviewedMorrison, Connie Strong – Reading Horizons, 1974
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)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedAskland, Linda C. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Presents step by step procedures for training tutors to work with children in an individualized reading instruction program. (RB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Individualized Instruction, Language Experience Approach, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Peer reviewedBidwell, James K. – Mathematics Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Instruction, Mathematics Education, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedCohen, Peter A.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1982
A meta-analysis of findings from 65 independent evaluations of school tutoring programs showed that these programs have positive effects on the academic performance and attitudes of both tutees and their student tutors. Tutored students outperformed control students on examinations and developed positive attitudes toward the subject matter…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Self Concept
Gordon, Edward E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Describes the individualized instructional approach of the Imperial Tutoring and Educational Services school in Chicago (Illinois), which offers tutoring by certified personnel for remedial and enrichment purposes. The program recently became the first tutorial school fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. (PGD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Home Schooling, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedKelley, Allen C.; Swartz, Caroline – Journal of Economic Education, 1976
A report on the impact of using student-to-student tutoring in freshman economics at Duke University. Positive impacts were seen to be twice as great as having had high school economics or having had high school differential calculus. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Descriptions, Economics, Economics Education
Peer reviewedBruce, Jennifer E.; Trammell, Jack – Learning Assistance Review, 2003
Discusses a study that examines the effects of paired tutoring and mentoring on academic achievement of college freshmen in a probationary program. Results show that students with mentoring and tutoring services by the same person show greater academic gains as measured by compliance and academic achievement than do those students who were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Peer Teaching, Remedial Instruction, Review (Reexamination)
Peer reviewedSoliday, Mary – Writing Center Journal, 1995
Argues that it is possible and desirable for writing tutors, acting out their role in classroom tutoring programs rather than in writing center programs, to play the dual role of teacher and tutor. Maintains that classroom tutoring projects have the potential to help educators practice the art of translating different philosophies, practices, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Styles, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring
Peer reviewedKaiden, Ellen – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1994
Describes a study conducted to examine whether personal and educational variables could be used to predict differences between students attending a tutoring center once and those attending more often. Indicates that perceptions of caring in the tutoring center and tutor/student relationship and transfer of learning were significant in predicting…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Individual Instruction, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedGourgey, Annette F. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1992
Reviews literature on developmental students' negative attitudes toward mathematics and themselves. Describes a model for math tutoring emphasizing the reduction of math anxiety and development of capacities for independent learning through dialogue, analysis of error, response to affective needs, reeducation about the learning process, and…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Learning Processes, Literature Reviews, Mathematics Anxiety
Peer reviewedBurley, Suzanne; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
Evaluation of using a hearing peer tutor to provide daily 20-minute math instruction for a profoundly deaf sixth-grade girl indicated that the peer tutoring intervention was highly successful, with the tutee meeting accuracy criteria for each of 4 curriculum objectives after only a brief period of intervention. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Deafness, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Peer reviewedJohanek, Cindy; Rickly, Rebecca – Computers and Composition, 1995
Provides examples of four Daedalus Interchange transcripts from writing center staff meetings at Ball State University. Discusses goals for tutor training and rationale and benefits for choosing synchronous conferencing as a tutor-training technique. Presents survey results from tutors who participated in online tutor training, suggesting a…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Online Systems
Peer reviewedHanks, Janet; Heller, Frances – Inquiry, 1999
Through awareness of the needs of non-traditional students and careful tutor training, the staff of Virginia's New River Community College's (NRCC's) writing center assist students with both writing-related tasks and integration into academic life. Describes how NRCC's writing center aids its students and suggests techniques that should be used to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Nontraditional Students, Student Needs, Teaching Methods
Download full textAllen, Anita Ford; Keene, Sylvia W. – 1995
The Delta Adult Literacy Council, Inc. (DALC) is a volunteer, nonprofit organization that seeks to recruit, assess, train, match, and support volunteer tutors and adult new readers. Its accomplishments, its history as a literacy organization, and its tutor training process are described. The process of student recruitment and support involves…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Venezky, Richard L., Comp. – 1995
This booklet presents tutoring strategies for use in the Read-Write-Now! Partners Tutoring Program, which assists school-age children, grades 1-6, in reading and writing. The booklet discusses general strategies, guidelines for effective tutoring, what to do during tutoring sessions, paired reading (including the basics and some "finer…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
