ERIC Number: ED137451
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1975
Pages: 32
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High School Peer Tutoring (Homework Helpers) Program; School Year, 1974-1975.
Heintz, Paul
The High School Homework Program was designed to provide eligible high school students, grades 9 through 12, with intensive individualized remedial instruction in reading, mathematics, and language as well as assistance with daily homework assignments. The major objectives of the program were to help students who were two or more years retarded in reading or mathematics improve their ability in these areas of academic achievement, and to help students whose native language was not English improve their language and mathematics skills. Over 4,000 students participated in the program. They were all volunteers. The program trained and employed high school and college students to serve as peer tutors. The analysis of reading and math test scores yielded highly significant differences between predicted and post test gains and actual post test gains in language and mathematics skills. The students who received tutoring in the program showed, on the average, an increment of two months of academic achievement for every month of participation in the program. This evaluation indicates that the outstanding success of the program can be attributed to the following factors: an excellent orientation component, good program organization, tutorial strategies, material used in the program, and staff interest in students. (Author/AM)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Authoring Institution: New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation.
Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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