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Jonas Tillmann; Claas Wegner – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
Satellite laboratories, designed to ignite interest in technical and computer science topics, employ cross-age peer tutoring and physical computing platforms. Catering to students from 5th grade onwards, these laboratories are led by tutors from 9th grade onwards. Employing a design-based research approach, the project aims to comprehensively…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Tutoring, STEM Education, Secondary School Students
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Karcher, Michael J.; Davidson, Alice J.; Rhodes, Jean E.; Herrera, Carla – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
Cross-age peer mentoring programs, in which teenagers mentor younger children, have proliferated in recent years, yet there is disagreement about the effectiveness of such programs. This study tested whether teen mentors' attitudes about children interact with their mentees' characteristics to moderate outcomes of cross-age peer mentoring. The…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Influence, Adolescents, Children
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Paterson, Patricia O.; Elliott, Lori N. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2006
This qualitative study examines the perceptions and responses of struggling ninth-grade readers who are teaching reading to struggling second- and third-grade students in a cross-age tutoring program. The program was designed to overcome the entrenched, negative affective barriers that older students often bring to the required reading class by…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Leadership, Role Models, Reading Ability