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Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) is a peer-tutoring program. According to the developer's web site, it is designed to be incorporated into the existing curriculum with the goal of improving the academic performance of children with diverse academic needs. Teachers train students to use PALS procedures. Students partner with peers,…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Reading Instruction, Primary Education
PDF pending restorationChronos, Julie; Long, Patti; Wagner, Laura; Sorensen, June – 1997
An action research project focused on how a child's academic achievement is affected by his or her chronological age. The population consisted of kindergarten and third-grade students in a growing middle class community within a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Evidence for the existence of this problem was gathered from teacher surveys,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Age Grade Placement, Cross Age Teaching
Bravick, Jean – 1986
A study was conceived to develop, implement, and evaluate the Structural-Response Instructional Model for increasing reading/thinking skills through written responses to a text's macrostructure. The study sought to determine: (1) if writing activities increased students' reading comprehension, (2) if the model effectively increased reading…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Models, Reading Comprehension
Boyer, Nancy W. – 1984
A practicum study was conducted to raise the reading comprehension level of students at least one grade level by using Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI), and to determine the kind of student who would most benefit by the use of CAI. A control group of 35 students and three experimental groups of 19 computer students, all in fourth or fifth…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Media, Gifted
Blacharski, Carol S. – 1985
This study examined the effectiveness of a program with three basic features--high interest plays, oral reading, and high readability level--designed to aid middle school students scoring two or more years below grade level in reading comprehension. Subjects, 13 boys and two girls enrolled in a basic English class in a suburban middle school…
Descriptors: Dramatics, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Merrimack Education Center, Chelmsford, MA. – 1988
Each year at the Greater Lawrence Technical School (Massachusetts), students are identified who lack the necessary basic skills to successfully complete a typical high school program. This problem led to the development of an alternative instructional program designed to accomplish remediation in the basic skills using computer-based instruction.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, High Schools, Mathematics Achievement
