Nine papers examine aspects of reverse-role tutoring in which students with handicaps are taught to tutor their non-handicapped peers. In the first, implementation strategies are discussed for conducting tutoring projects in special education. The second paper reports on a study in which 64 handicapped tutors demonstrated significant increases in…

Forty eighth-grade students, all failing math, were divided into a control group and an experimental group. Control group received traditional treatment. Experimental group met with trained older peer tutors twice a week. Results indicate that experimental group improved significantly while control group did not. (HMV)

Peer tutoring recognizes that a pupil is in reality three individuals: the pupil he is, the one he himself perceives, and the one others see. Such a program is beneficial to students, teachers, parents, and administrators. (Author/IRT)

This brochure describes a new series of Project Information Packages, a U.S. Office of Education response to the need for a systematic approach to disseminating exemplary projects. The packages describe procedures for developing the necessary administrative support and management framework, as well as instructional methods and techniques. The six…

This brochure provides an introduction and guide to using six individual project selection booklets related to a new series of Project Information Packages. The packages, produced in response to the need for a systematic approach to disseminating exemplary projects, describe procedures for developing the necessary administrative support and…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves more than 11,200 disadvantaged students in kindergarten through grade 6. The children live in an inner-city area and come from low-income families. The program is individualized and objectives based. The basic reading skills to be learned from readiness to grade 8 are…

This manual for tutors participating in the Homework Helper Program (which employs high school students or graduates as tutors for elementary school students) opens with generalizations of the characteristics of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students intended as a base of understanding for tutors. The next section focuses on the varying…

The purpose of this study was to conduct an ecological study of a self-contained classroom of 8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds in order to: (1) define various techniques through which students offer help to and receive help from peers; (2) identify the types of situations under which these different types of peer helping relationships are likely to occur;…

In 1972, using Title I funds, a study was initiated to determine the effects of using teacher aides and student tutors in remediating reading deficient second and third graders in the Boise schools. The two schools in the pilot program were located in areas having a high incidence of low-income families. Tutor managers (paraprofessionals)…

This article presents a summary of a peer tutoring program survey and a report on the broadly based campus senate. The summary of peer tutoring programs reviews survey methodologies and peer tutoring programs. The program review indicates goals, finances, selection of tutors, tutor training, tutors' wages, the number of tutees, matching for…

This article focuses on a demonstration project that was developed to investigate the effects on reading achievement, self concept, attitudes toward school, and behavior of the participants (low achieving third and fourth grade tutors and first and second grade tutees). (Author)

Five moderately mentally retarded peer tutors (ages 9-11) were taught sight words using a time delay procedure, and then were taught to use this procedure to teach the words to six younger, moderately mentally retarded children (ages 6-9). Younger children learned all five sight words in one to four sessions. (Author/JW)

In Knoxville, Illinois, high school students are learning child care skills, helping teachers, and saving the schools money. The aim of the program is to teach high school students responsibility. (Author/TE)

Describes an assignment that required noneducation majors enrolled in a children's literature class to read aloud and tell stories to preschool children as an alternative to writing a term paper. Describes the activities and materials used. (FL)

Describes how fifth grade students can help first graders develop their language skills and also teach other fifth graders how to tutor. Provides a list of picture books for use in the program. (FL)