Presents a case study that describes the design and implementation of a tutor-training program for prospective online tutors. Identifies key findings that will inform future staff development and training programs for prospective online tutors. Analyzes the effectiveness of individual components of the training program to which the tutors were…

Initiatives are described that have been undertaken by the Student Development Tutorship Programme at the M.L. Sultan Technikon in South Africa, a program established in 1990 to provide assistance and support to disadvantaged students, primarily Black students from areas with inadequate facilities and instructors in the "homelands" and…

The guide is one section of a resource kit designed to assist Peace Corps language instruction coordinators in countries around the world in understanding the principles underlying second language learning and teaching and in organizing instructional programs. This section is concerned with in-service and independent language training at the…

The major goal of the University of Southern Maine Reading Academy Project was to demonstrate the effectiveness of process-oriented, diagnostic/prescriptive instruction by trained tutors in raising the literacy levels of adults reading at less than a sixth grade equivalency level. Preservice and inservice training using an empirical model of…