The Effects of a Peer Tutoring Programme to Improve the Reading Comprehension Competence Involving Primary Students at School and their Families at Home
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In this article, the effects of an educational program involving peer tutoring at school and family tutoring in home on child reading comprehension achievement were investigated, which revealed the effectiveness of peer learning to improve reading comprehension skills and the potential of family involvement for the development of academic skills.About:
This article is published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Peer tutor & Reading comprehension.read more
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Dyadic Collaboration Among Preschool-Age Children and the Benefits of Working With a More Socially Advanced Peer
Jeongeon Park,Jeonghwa Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the learning effects of collaborative group work under heterogeneous group composition among 5-year-old children, especially in terms of their social skills, and found that children with high ability and those with low ability in collaborative dyads had higher learning gains than singletons.
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Enhancing Reading Comprehension through Metacognitive Reading Strategies and Peer Tutoring among Year 7 Students at a Home School Centre.
TL;DR: This paper investigated how metacognitive reading strategies and peer tutoring improved Year 7 students' reading comprehension at a home-school centre, where a total of 20 students took part in this research, whereby 10 students were placed in the controlled group and 10 students in the experimental group.
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Examining first-year students' experience of being tutored: A South African case study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors followed an intrinsic case study design to understand how sociocultural distinctions at a university in South Africa intersect to shape the tutoring experiences of 11 first-year students.
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Investigating EFL Teachers' Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Reading Metacognitive Strategies Regarding Their Academic Degrees
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to explore the teachers' attitudes towards the effectiveness of reading metacognitive strategies which are used by high school students and found that although teachers holding MA and BA degrees had the same attitudes about pre-reading metACognitive strategies, they had significantly different attitudes about reading and post-reading meta-cognitive strategies.
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Parents' motivations for involvement in children's education: An empirical test of a theoretical model of parental involvement.
TL;DR: The authors examined the ability of a theoretical model to predict types and levels of parental involvement during the elementary and middle school years, including motivational beliefs about involvement, perceptions of invitations to involvement from others, and perceived life context variables.
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Understanding Tutor Learning: Knowledge-Building and Knowledge-Telling in Peer Tutors’ Explanations and Questions:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined two tutoring activities that are commonly hypothesized to support tutor learning: explaining and questioning, and found that they tend to exhibit a pervasive knowledge-telling bias.
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Peer Assisted Learning
Keith Topping,Stewart W. Ehly +1 more
TL;DR: Topping as mentioned in this paper discusses the basis and benefits of peer-assisted learning, and discusses the role of peers in the design and implementation of effective PAS programs, and presents a set of guidelines for implementing PAS.
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Handbook of research on reading comprehension
Susan E. Israel,Gerald G. Duffy +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses Historical Perspectives on Reading Comprehension, which aims to provide a historical perspective on the development of readingcomprehension in the 20th Century and its application in the 21st Century.