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…

This prospective mixed methods longitudinal study examined the connection between mentor-mentee relationship quality and school adjustment amongst students participating in the Chapel Buddy programme, a developmental mentoring programme. Thirty-one sixth graders were paired with 29 kindergarteners for the duration of the school year. Sixth-grade…

The present study explores the impact of an experimental reading intervention focusing on explicit reading strategy instruction and cross-age peer tutoring on third and sixth graders' reading strategy awareness, cognitive and metacognitive reading strategy use, and reading comprehension achievement. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was…

Fifth- and sixth-grade students were trained by kindergarten teachers to tutor kindergarten pupils in reading by using highly structured practice exercises, selected by teachers for each pupil as part of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's First-Year Communication Skills Program. To measure the effectiveness of tutoring on the progress of pupils…

A program by two 6th-grade classes at Horace May Elementary School and a group of senior citizens in Bemidji, Minnesota, brought the children in teams of four to spend a full day with the senior citizens. (Author/MLF)

The effects of a problem solving-oriented tutorial program on the problem solving behavior of student tutors is studied. Half of a sixth grade class were tutors; the other half a control group. Results on two tasks measuring problem solving skills showed significant difference between the two groups only on the skill of problem defining. (NH)

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The essential value of this program is not only the attainment of increased reading skills for both tutors and tutees, but the positive social and emotional benefits which it offers. (Author)

The author, a sixth grade teacher, explains how she was able to use cartoons as an incentive for story writing. (AS)

Describes cross-age tutoring experiment in which sixth graders provided individual help and companionship to first-graders. Tutor gains were subject reinforcement, extended creativity, and meaningful personal relationships. (AJ)

This study was undertaken to determine some of the effects of role change on children's language production. The questions to be answered were: (1) To what degree is the language of a 6th grade child more conplex in the tutor role than it is in the role of student?; (2) Is there a significant difference in the variety of basic language patterns…

A study of 70 kindergarten and 20 sixth-grade students determined the affective changes which occur when older children tutor younger ones. The research indicates that cross-age tutoring promotes positive attitudes toward upperclassmen among lowerclassmen. Methodolgy is described. (JL)

A study examined whether cross-grade peer tutoring increased student performance on weekly spelling tests. Subjects, 7 sixth graders and 19 second graders attending Coal City Elementary School in Raleigh County, West Virginia, spent 10 minutes each day for 9 weeks working on spelling. The experimental group used cross-grade peer tutoring and the…