The role of assignment rationale on the attitudinal effects of peer tutoring is examined. Tutors had more positive attitudes than tutees when they had been given a competence or physical characteristic rationale but not when the tutors were provided a chance rationale or no rationale. (Author/GK)

To investigate the order in which the components of the text-lookback strategy are acquired, 100 fifth-grade students were asked to tutor younger readers. The order of acquisition was as follows: undifferentiated rereading, text sampling, question differentiation, and text manipulation. (Author/BW)

The relative impact of structured peer learning and group reward components of a reciprocal peer tutoring intervention on mathematics performance of 64 academically at-risk students in grades 4 and 5 was examined. Results indicate additive and distinctive effects of both components, with the highest gain for the component combination. (SLD)