ERIC Number: EJ1179473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jun
Pages: 27
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ISSN: ISSN-1053-0819
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Cross-Age Peer Tutoring and Fluency-Based Instruction to Achieve Fluency with Mathematics Computation Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Greene, Irene; Mc Tiernan, Aoife; Holloway, Jennifer
Journal of Behavioral Education, v27 n2 p145-171 Jun 2018
The current study employed a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the use of peer tutoring and fluency-based instruction to increase mathematics fluency with addition and subtraction computation skills. Forty-one elementary school students between the ages of eight and 12 years participated in the 8-week study using cross-age peer tutoring, Say All Fast Minute Every Day Shuffled, frequency building, and the morningside math facts curriculum (Johnson in "Morningside mathematics fluency: math facts" (vol 1-6; curriculum program), Morningside Press, Seattle, 2008). Pre- and post-test measures of mathematics fluency and calculation were conducted with all participants. A measure of social skills and competing problem behaviors was also conducted at pre- and post-testing to evaluate any additional effects of the peer tutoring model. The results demonstrated a statistically significant difference between groups on measures of mathematics fluency, with the experimental group demonstrating significantly higher scores than the control group at post-testing. There were no significant differences between groups on measures of social skills and competing problem behaviors or calculation. The findings indicate that cross-age peer tutoring and fluency-based instruction resulted in positive outcomes for tutees in the mathematics domain, specifically mathematics fluency.
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Randomized Controlled Trials, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Models, Mathematics Instruction, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests, Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis, Arithmetic, Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Scores, Outcomes of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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