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Fresko, Barbara; Chen, Michael – American Educational Research Journal, 1989
Path analysis examined effects of tutor-tutee ethnic similarity (ES), tutor expertise, and perceived goal attainment (PGA) on the satisfaction of 425 college student tutors of disadvantaged elementary school students. The major influence on satisfaction was tutors' PGA; ES had an indirect impact and expertise had direct and indirect effects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Children, College Students, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth
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Chen, Michael; Goldring, Ellen B. – Urban Review, 1994
Explores the impact of the social and academic diversity of the class on teachers' perspectives about their schools as workplaces. Data from 370 Israeli secondary teachers indicate that classroom diversity is correlated negatively with average academic ability and positively with class size and discipline problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Class Size, Classification, Conflict