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Direct linkShadle, Susan – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2010
A program at North East High School (NEHS) was started to help improve state test scores. Senior students work with underclassmen in one of the four state test areas: Algebra, English 10, Biology, and Government to help improve scores with hopes of passing the test. State test scores help to determine whether or not a school will meet their Annual…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Peer Teaching, Standardized Tests
Tindall, Judith A.; Black, David R.; Spight, Damon L. – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2007
The National FFA Organization's Partners in Active Learning Support (PALS) is a program that utilizes high school members from FFA chapters as peer mentors. The purpose of this study was to examine needs of a sample of PALS advisors and mentors. An on-site pilot study was initially conducted, which included 3 individual interviews with program…
Descriptors: Mentors, Needs Assessment, Focus Groups, Active Learning
Kohlhauff, Sara; Stahl, Jo; Wachholz, Patricia – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2006
As director of the National Writing Project (NWP) at Florida Gulf Coast University, one of the first questions the author gets from both elementary and high school teachers when she talks about the NWP Summer Invitational Institute is this: "What can we possibly hope to gain from each other as we share our best practices?" High school teachers…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Role Models, High School Students, Elementary School Students
Fetter, Corinne – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2005
This article discusses Cathedral High School's peer program that involves seniors serving as mentors to freshmen students to help them transition to high school. Students pour into Cathedral from more than 60 different grade schools, and the administration saw a need to connect these students with their peers in order to retain them. The program…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mentors, Family Life, Student Adjustment
