After evaluation, three software programs were chosen and used by fifth-grade pupils to tutor third graders in grammar rules. Setting up the tutoring programs, developing games for it, and describing the results are covered. Sources for the software packages are listed. (MT)

School systems today are rediscovering what was well-known in yesterday's one-room schools -- that tutoring of younger students by older students works. (Author/JN)

Discusses the factors influencing the rise and decline of the Lancasterian Monitorial System in American Indian schools during the early nineteenth century. Missionary schools adopted the system, in which older students were trained to teach younger ones basic literacy and manual skills, but abandoned it when it proved ineffective. (AM)

Presents the authors' varying perspectives as teacher researchers reflecting on their first-time implementation of a cross-age, primary-grade literacy project. Identifies several themes as important sites of difference among the teacher-researchers. (SR)

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…

This article outlines a cross-age elementary level geography tutorial project and suggests some experiences suitable for tutorial activity. (DE)

This document examines eighteen studies on the subject of cross-grade tutoring, the studies being classified according to the manner in which the tutoring task is selected--whether based on the needs of the teacher, the tutor, or the tutee. Presentation of the studies follows the following sequence: (1) a description and analysis of experiments…

This preliminary survey was designed to explore the possible use of students as teaching resources in the developing countries. In carrying out the survey, available literature was reviewed, visits made to selected ongoing projects in the United States, and interviews conducted overseas with indigenous educational researchers in Ghana, Sierra…

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…

The effect of different degrees of pupil imitation on male and female tutors' attitudes and behavior was investigated in this study. Subjects were 72 sixth grade students, half male and half female. A 3 x 2 x 2 factorial design was used (Pupil Imitation--Low, Medium, and High; Pupil Liking--Medium and High; and Sex--Male and Female). After two…

Historically most tutoring studies have been concerned with the impact on the students being tutored. Recently there has been a tendency to look at the impact on the tutor and even to focus the program on that impact. A few recent studies have been concerned with discovering ways to improve the program itself. It has not been possible to isolate…

Presented is the text of House of Representatives Bill 1986, a bill to amend the Education of the Handicapped Act to provide tutorial and related instructional services for homebound children through the employment of college students, particularly veterans and other students who themselves are handicapped. Described are requirements of local and…

A discussion of how cross-age tutoring was used with older pupils helping younger ones by making media curriculum materials. How this method was applied to disaster preparedness education is described. (HB)