Strategy-Based Peer Tutoring

Traditionally, teachers have used textbooks and
lectures in the classroom as a cost-effective and
time efficient medium for instruction. Students with
learning disabilities, however, typically require
instruction that is more explicit and supportive than
what is provided in the regular classroom.
Difficulties in providing students with learning
disabilities such intensive support become amplified
at the secondary school level. With this in mind,
there have been changes in instructional approaches
for teaching adolescents with learning disabilities
that can compensate for the lack of resources
available in secondary school. Using peers to teach
other peers learning strategies is one such approach.
This book provides an evaluation of peer tutoring at
the secondary school level. It examines whether
students with learning disabilities who are tutored
outperform control participants on various academic
measures and whether certain conditions, skills or
dynamics are more conducive to academic gains than
others. The book will prove that it is never too late
for students to make gains in their academics and
given the opportunity, most students will work hard
to improve themselves.