Peer Tutoring Essay

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1. Literature Review The 1978 peer tutoring study, “Peer Tutoring: Putting It to the Test”, by Amy Roseman Allen and Nancy Boraks, will be adumbrated in this summary. The authors of the study, Boraks and Allen, mention a conservative amount of literature in the opening paragraph. They collectively mention ‘recent and comprehensive reviews of tutoring studies’ by a number of authors (Devin Sheehan, Feldman and Allen 1976; Paolitto 1976; Stainback and Licht Ward 1975), stating that these indicate that there is rife debate within the sphere of educational literature regarding whether peer tutoring is effective or otherwise. In addition, they mention their own preceding 1977 peer tutoring training program, during which school-aged children were taught an array of teaching methods for use in classroom cooperation settings. 2. Research Questions/ Hypotheses The study clearly aimed to contrast the 1977 peer tutoring training program developed by Boraks & Allen, RPT (Reciprocal Peer Tutoring), with the more conventional direct adult-child tutoring in terms of effectivity. Furthermore, the study intended to discern what kind of differences, if any, were present in the application of the two aforementioned tutoring approaches in urban and suburban classroom environments, involving children of different ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. 3. Methodology Two undergraduate diagnostic reading classes were involved in the study, one from an urban state university and the other a private suburban university, in conjunction with two types of schoolchildren, urban public school children of whom the vast majority was of Black background and predominantly White, upper middle-class children from a private suburban school. Additionally, four treatment groups were created, each comprising 12 children: urban public school children involved in RPT, public school

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