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Halls, William Alford – 1976
This study sought to determine the effect of the Grant Von Harrison Lay Tutor Program on low-achieving, sixth-grade students who became tutors and on low-achieving second graders who were tutored. Experimental groups and control groups of sixth graders were formed from a list provided by the principal. Students were pre- and posttested for reading…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Ference, Camille – 1972
This paper examines a junior high counseling procedure which utilized preschool students as models. Differing with traditional modeling procedures, the junior high students were required to interact with the youngsters as well as each other. Following the interaction, twice-weekly group counseling sessions were conducted for a nine-week period to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling, Cross Age Teaching, Experimental Programs
Patberg, Judythe A. Pearson – 1974
In this paper, the development and the first three months of a reading program in which university students tutor junior high school students with reading skill deficiencies are described. In section 1, an introduction, the literacy problem that exists in the United States and the basic rationale for the tutoring approach as a solution to this…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Junior High School Students, Literacy, Program Descriptions
Harrison, Grant V.; Brimley, Vern – 1971
The feasibility of devising a highly individualized reading program for low-achieving 6-year-old children centering on structured tutoring was investigated. The 33 subjects from three schools would enter first grade in the fall and were considered low achievers on the basis of kindergarten testing. Upper-grade elementary students volunteered to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
Ohio Univ., Athens. Coll. of Education. – 1969
This project, proposed for 1969-70 and based upon the evaluation of a similar project in 1966-68, plans to train high school seniors from poverty homes to work as teacher aides with kindergarten and elementary school children in 10 Appalachian counties. Operated by the University of Ohio in cooperation with local schools and communities, the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Majors

Carsrud, A. L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
The use of graduate students in the behavioral sciences to supervise undergraduate research is a viable approach. To be successful such a program must involve well prepared and highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students, and there must be a congenial and open relationship between the two. (RM)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Research
Jabker, Eugene H.; Rives, Stanley G. – Alternative Higher Education, 1976
In 1973 Illinois State University initiated a campus-wide program in which junior and senior undergraduate students were selected to assist faculty teaching freshman-sophomore courses. The success of this Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program is described. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Seniors, Cross Age Teaching, High School Seniors
Moore-Hart, Margaret; Karabenick, Stuart A. – 2000
A study examined how culturally diverse students increased their reading/writing performance through a structured volunteer tutoring program. Two university professors developed volunteer tutoring programs at six elementary schools in southeastern Michigan. Program objectives were to: (1) increase the reading performance of culturally diverse…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Diversity (Student), Elementary Education, Higher Education
Fairleigh, Roberta – Teacher, 1978
The cross age teaching program at Bemis Elementary in Troy, Michigan, is described, including procedures and forms by which teachers request tutors, the tutor volunteering process, parent information letters, and tutor training content, particularly self-concept enhancement techniques. For a companion article, see p30-34 of this issue. (SJL)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Program Descriptions

Sprinthall, Norman A.; Scott, Jacqueline R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1989
Tested effects on psychological development of mathematics tutoring program involving 15 high school girl tutors paired with elementary school girls. Found tutors improved both on conceptual maturity and value judgment. Found elementary girls improved on mathematics achievement test and measures of success attribution with control group showing…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Peyton, Joy Kreeft – Writing Instructor, 1989
Describes a project which used basic writers in a pre-college English class to tutor deaf elementary school students. Focuses on the project's attempt to encourage discussions of writing on a local area computer network, as a means of developing deaf students' experience with informal and formal written English. (MM)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Uses in Education, Cross Age Teaching, Deafness

Young, Russell L.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1988
Results are presented from a study of Project SHOUT, a tobacco-use prevention program which targets sixth and seventh graders. Distinguished from similar programs by its use of college students rather than peer or teacher leaders, Project SHOUT serves as a pilot for a generic tobacco-use prevention program. (IAH)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Health Education

Braverman, Marc T.; And Others – California Agriculture, 1994
Describes the development of Project 4-Health, a California program that recruits and trains teenagers to deliver a tobacco education program to children ages 9-12. The program was based on studies involving the social context of tobacco use, a survey of 4-H members, and randomized field trials of the prevention curriculum. (LP)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education

Leto, Deborah J. – Language Arts, 1995
Describes and evaluates the ARCH (A Real Community Helps) After-School Program, a successful after-school tutoring program in which university, junior college, and high school students became tutors at an inner-city elementary school, contributing to the creation of a positive learning community. (SR)
Descriptors: After School Education, Classroom Research, College Students, Cross Age Teaching

Leland, Christine; Fitzpatrick, Ruth – Reading Teacher, 1994
Describes a cross-age reading and writing program in which sixth-grade students (all average and low-average readers) were paired with kindergarten children to read and write collaboratively on a regular basis. Finds evidence from the students themselves, their parents, the teachers, and the school librarian showing how students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 6