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Chrispeels, Hanya E.; Chapman, Jordan M.; Gibson, Carole L.; Muday, Gloria K. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
We analyzed effects of peer teaching on non-science major undergraduates' knowledge, perceptions, and opinions about genetically modified (GM) crops and their use in agriculture. Undergraduates enrolled in an introductory nonmajors biology course participated in a service-learning program (SLP) in which they acted as cross-age peer teachers to…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Nonmajors, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Kraft, Matthew A.; Falken, Grace T. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper, we explore how tutoring could become a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system. We outline a blueprint for taking tutoring to scale nationally and estimate its costs, while highlighting a range of design and implementation challenges. Our blueprint is centered on ten core principles and a federal architecture to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Tutoring, Costs, Program Design
Gail Lorraine Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This mixed method research was designed to examine the effects of cross-age mentoring in an inter-institutional online learning community. The research questions focused on the impact of mentoring on high school students' confidence in their information seeking skills, perceptions of their information seeking standards, and the application of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Cross Age Teaching, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Miciano, Remedios Z. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
To pilot a peer literacy program, a pretest-posttest study was conducted involving seventy (70) students from Arellano High School as tutees and 12 De La Salle University-Manila College of Education students as reading tutors. Though the results suggest the lack of impact of the Program on the Reading Grades of the tutees, the tutors' journals…
Descriptors: Tutors, Literacy, Preservice Teacher Education, Pilot Projects