Peers as Tutors in the Mainstream: Trained "Teachers" of Handicapped Adolescents

1 April 1981

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Learning Disabilities

Vol. 14 (4) , 224-238
https://doi.org/10.1177/002221948101400412

Abstract

Objective: The Peer Tutoring Model developed by the authors was designed to train eighth and ninth grade students as "teacher tutors" in a junior high school. The tutor's role was to increase the learning success and on task behavior of mainstreamed peers in content area classes.

Keywords

BEHAVIOR
MODEL
TEACHERS
PEERS
HIGH SCHOOL
CONTENT AREA
TUTOR'S
AREA CLASSES
MAINSTREAMED
HANDICAPPED ADOLESCENTS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Academic engaged time
British Journal of Teacher Education, 1978
A Field Test of Programed and Directed Tutoring
Reading Research Quarterly, 1968