TOPIC: Tutoring

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Resources and Tools

• From our Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning Packet:
• Please refer to the section of "Appendix A: Classroom-Focused Enabling" entitled Tutoring
• Please refer to the section of "Appendix B: Support for Transitions" entitled Welcoming and Social Support
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and Schools Address Barriers to Learning

• Cross-Age and Peer Tutoring
• Cross-Age Tutoring Lesson Plans
• Education Actions May Help Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services (2007)
• A Guide to Promising Practices in Educational Partnerships
• Involving Families in Tutoring Programs
• Mixed-Age Groups in Early Childhood Education
• The Partners Tutoring Program
• Peer-assisted Learning
• Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring
• Peer Helping Relationships in Urban Schools
• Peer Helping: Youth Working Together
• Peer Tutoring in Adult and Basic Literacy Education
• Peer Tutoring: Toward a New Model
• Reading Helpers: A Handbook for Training Tutors
• School Improvement Research Series: Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring
• Supplemental Educations Services, U.S.Department of Education
• Supplemental Educations Services under NCLB: Emerging Evidence and Policy Issues (2007) P. Burch

• America Reads: Miami Reads Tutorial Project
• Counseling and Tutoring Services Manual (CATS)
• Cross-Age Teaching/ Youth in Action
• Information to Schools Considering Adoption of Success for All and Roots and Wings
• Read With Me: A Guide for Student Volunteers Starting Early Childhood Literacy Programs
• Review of Extended-Day and After-School Programs and Their Effectiveness

• America Reads
• America Counts
• Literacy Volunteers of America
• The National Peer Helpers Association
• National Tutoring Association
• Peer Resources
• Students for Other Students
• Success For All Foundation
• Tutoring Plus
• The Youth Tutoring Program

• A win-win peer mentoring and tutoring program: A collaborative model. Dennison, S.  (2000).  Journal of Primary Prevention, 20, 161-174.
• Cross-age peer mentoring in action: The process and outcomes. Dearden, J. (1998).  Educational Psychology in Practice, 13,  250-257.
• Educational outcomes of tutoring: A meta-analysis of findings. Cohen, P.A., Kuklik, J.A., & Kuklik, C-L.C.  (1982).  American Educational Research Journal, 237-248.
• Low-achieving students as successful cross-age tutors.  Giesecke, D., Cartledge, G., & Gardner, R. (1993).  Preventing School Failure, 37, 34-43.
• Mentor-supported literacy development in elementary schools.  Ellis, J. Small-McGinley, J.,  & Hart, S.  (1998).   Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 44, 149-162.
• Partners for valued youth: The final report.  Sypek, J.D. (1991).  IDRA Newsletter, 18, 1-4.
• Peer Assisted Learning: A Practical Guide for Teachers.  Topping, K.  (2000).  Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books.
• Peer tutoring classes for young adolescents: A cost-effective strategy.  Martino, L.R. (1994).  Middle School Journal, 25, 55-58.
• Success for all: Improvements in the quality and implementation of whole-school change through the use of a national reform network.  Cooper, R., Slavin, R.E., &  Madden, N. A. (1998). Education and Urban Society, 30, 385-408.
• Using mentoring to improve academic programming for African American male youths with mild disabilities. Campbell-Whatley, G.D., Algozzine, B., & Obiakor, F.  (1997).  School Counselor, 44, 362-367.

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