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Osguthorpe, Russell T.; And Others – 1985
Nine papers examine aspects of reverse-role tutoring in which students with handicaps are taught to tutor their non-handicapped peers. In the first, implementation strategies are discussed for conducting tutoring projects in special education. The second paper reports on a study in which 64 handicapped tutors demonstrated significant increases in…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Cross Age Teaching, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hymovitz, Leon – National Elementary Principal, 1975
Peer tutoring recognizes that a pupil is in reality three individuals: the pupil he is, the one he himself perceives, and the one others see. Such a program is beneficial to students, teachers, parents, and administrators. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching, Self Actualization
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Ponzio, Richard C.; Peterson, Kenneth D. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1999
Described perceptions of the effective teaching dynamics of adolescents placed in the role of science teacher for young children in an after-school program. Data from observations, instructor portfolios, focus groups, and interviews with children identified five perceived reasons for adolescent effectiveness. The nature of child science was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Education, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Rekrut, Martha D. – 1992
This study was conducted to examine tutoring as a pedagogical tool to enhance learning in the tutor. Three groups of high school students were subjects of the study. The first group, instructed in a story grammar and its use as a recall apparatus, taught the strategy to younger students; the second, an equivalent group, was given strategy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
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Topping, Keith J.; Peter, Carolyn; Stephen, Pauline; Whale, Michelle – Educational Psychology, 2004
The development of deeper understanding and transferable skills in science requires continuous interactive discussion and feedback and extended practice in various contexts for generalisation. In primary schools, these desiderata are difficult to supply through direct teacher instruction, but might be feasible through interactive peer tutoring.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Science Education, Elementary School Science, Cross Age Teaching
Collier, Janet C. – 1995
This report describes a cross-age tutoring program implemented to improve reading comprehension skills in a group of regular students in a rural elementary school. A targeted group of four fifth-grade students and four second-grade students were matched for cross-age tutoring sessions. The students developed reading comprehension skills through…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5
Gaustad, Joan – OSSC Bulletin, 1992
Traditional large-group instruction is geared toward one type of learning style and often assumes a specific cultural background. Tutoring, as a way to augment traditional instruction and help students with special needs, is examined in this bulletin. Following the introduction, chapter 1 reviews evidence supporting the effectiveness of tutoring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Shisler, Lenore; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1986
Upper-elementary behavior disordered (BD) students served as reverse-role tutors in two studies. In Study 1, BD tutors (N=10) and nonhandicapped first-grade tutees performed significantly better on reading achievement than controls, while self-esteem remained constant. In Study 2, gifted peers (N=30) had more positive attitudes toward their 10 BD…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Cross Age Teaching, Gifted, Intermediate Grades
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Spencer, Vicky G. – Behavioral Disorders, 2006
This article presents an updated research synthesis on the use of students with emotional or behavioral disorders as tutors and/or tutees. Thirty-eight studies from 1972 to 2002 were identified in which students with emotional or behavioral disorders served as tutors and/or tutees in order to teach their peers a variety of academic and social…
Descriptors: Tutors, Tutoring, Peer Teaching, Cross Age Teaching
Garcia, Juanita C. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2004
The teacher wondered how her group of middle school tutors would react to reading predictable children's books to their elementary "tutees." Would they enjoy the books or would they think they were too mature to do the activities in the lesson? She wondered if the tutors would enjoy being read to as she modeled the dramatic reading of a children's…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Secondary School Students
Fairleigh, Roberta – Teacher, 1978
The learning stations described in this article prepare older elementary students to tutor younger ones. Skill and presentation practice are combined to help tutors learn to develop materials and lessons and to serve as good models. For a companion article by Fairleigh, see pages 46-48 of this issue. (SJL)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Guidelines
Osguthorpe, Russell T. – 1984
Issues in tutoring handicapped and gifted students are examined in the paper, one of a collection of papers commissioned for the Foundations project on the career development needs of students entering the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Studies are reviewed which assess the effects of tutoring on both tutors and tutees in three broad…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Cross Age Teaching
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Medway, Frederic J.; Lowe, Charles A. – American Educational Research Journal, 1980
Cross-age tutors and tutees (n=122 children) felt that tutorial learning was most dependent on effort rather than ability factors and attributed positive learning consequences to their tutoring partner, but negative learning consequences to themselves. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory
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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
Bloom, Sophie – 1975
Group classes with 30-40 children per teacher favor the children who catch on fast. These children participate more in class and give more feedback to the teacher, so the teacher gears instruction to them and goes too fast for students who are having difficulty. Peer and cross-age tutoring, can supplement class learning and help the below-average…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Cross Age Teaching, Group Instruction
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