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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Kazdan, Sarah; Allen, Shelley – Elementary School Journal, 1999
Developed and evaluated an explicit approach to teaching students to engage in elaborated help-giving during collaborative group work in reading. Found that grade level and treatment exerted statistically significant and practically sizable effects on the help that students provided their peers. (Author/LPP)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 3

Mathes, Patricia G.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
This study of 67 intermediate grade students with reading difficulties found that students in a peer-mediated sustained reading condition performed better than peer-mediated repeated reading students and control students receiving typical reading instruction, on fluency but not on comprehension. No effect for the level of text difficulty was…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Language Fluency