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ERIC Number: ED376752
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1993-Sep
Pages: 88
Abstractor: N/A
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Evaluation of the Quincy School Community Council's Take And Give Program Final Report.
Cichon, Donald J.; Huston, Maryana H.
In response to high demand for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction among the community's Chinese-speaking population, the Quincy School Community Council (Massachusetts) developed the Take And Give (TAG) program, in which graduates of the highest-level ESL classes were trained as peer tutors for students at the lowest instructional level. The program's goal is to help students at the introductory level, at which there is greatest demand for instruction, bypass level 1 classes and proceed to level 2 classes. TAG students study at home using a videotape series and meet with tutors bi-weekly to review, supplement, and practice what they have learned. The first 8-week tutor training cycle and student recruitment began in January 1992. The report details the evaluation of both the tutor training program and the student instructional program, and includes a program participant profile. Evaluation of student ESL learning focuses on student background, motivation, learning strategies, and classroom performance. Further development of an ongoing program evaluation system is also discussed. Appended materials include data on TAG participants and comparison groups, classroom observation data, and TAG program participant retention data. (MSE) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Quincy School Community Council, MA.; Development Assistance Corp., Dover, NH.
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