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Direct linkAdams, Megan Glover – English Journal, 2009
Cross-age tutoring, in which older and younger students work together to improve their ELA skills, is not a new concept; Linda D. Labbo and William H. Teale explored it as a tool for poor readers as early as 1990. The author has found that using tutoring with video games also works well. Students have the opportunity to read aloud collaboratively…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Video Games, Adolescents, Cross Age Teaching
Peer reviewedPaolitto, Diana Pritchard – Review of Educational Research, 1976
Discusses the effect of cross age tutoring on adolescents, the experience for the tutor, and the quality and quantity of the effect. Having moved from the practical to the theoretical, it is suggested that a rigorous experimental study measuring several aspects of development needs to be conducted. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Age Teaching, Literature Reviews, Research Needs
Tate, Flicka – 1977
Described are the development and evolution of a program using hospitalized emotionally disturbed adolescents as tutors for hospitalized elementary students. Noted is the program's beginning when one adolescent worked with a recreation staff member in the elementary program. Reviewed are such program aspects as tutor and tutee selection and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Lazerson, David B. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2005
Concerned professionals in the juvenile justice field frequently express concern for effective programs that help youth offenders successfully rejoin society. This mixed-method pilot study involved detention home teens functioning as tutors for special education students in a public school. Tutors were selected who, based on previous assessment as…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Pilot Projects
Vogelwiesche, Uta; Grob, Alexander; Winkler, Britta – Learning and Instruction, 2006
In a voluntary tutor-based training program, socially disadvantaged adolescents acquired basic computer skills. Two training groups were compared: one group was instructed by adolescents, the other by adults. Both groups achieved comparable results in a final test. The tutees' learning results did not differ with respect to their initial…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged, Computer Literacy, Tutoring
Peer reviewedMaher, Charles A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Evaluated effects of using conduct problem adolescents (N=18) as cross-age tutors for elementary school-aged mentally retarded students. When compared to students who received peer tutoring or group counseling, cross-age tutors improved significantly on social science and language arts grades, and had reduced rates of absenteeism and disciplinary…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavioral Objectives
Peer reviewedBlackbourn, Vonda A.; Blackbourn, J. M. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
An adolescent with moderate mental disabilities tutored a seven year old in arithmetic. The peer tutoring program increased the mathematics performance of the first grader, successfully integrated the adolescent into a more typical classroom environment, improved the accuracy of the tutor's mathematics performance, and resulted in changes in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1
