A Replication of Collateral Effects and a Component Analysis of a Successful Tutoring Package for Inner-City Adolescents.

Polirstok, Susan Rovet; Greer, R. Douglas

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Publication Date: 1986

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A Replication of Collateral Effects and a Component Analysis of a Successful Tutoring Package for Inner-City Adolescents.

Polirstok, Susan Rovet; Greer, R. Douglas

Education and Treatment of Children, v9 n2 p101-21 May 1986

Results of analyzing variables impacting the behavior of four ninth-grade poor-achieving tutors and 20 seventh-grade tutees with reading difficulties found that giving tutor points for reinforcing tutee responses was the most important component of the tutoring package for both tutors and tutees. (Author/JDD)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Inner City, Low Achievement, Peer Relationship, Peer Teaching, Reading Difficulties, Secondary Education, Student Behavior, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Underachievement, Urban Education

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