Improving computer skills of socially disadvantaged adolescents: Same-age versus cross-age tutoring |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA;2. Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA;3. Department of Statistics & Warwick Manufacturing Group, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK;4. Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA;5. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA;6. Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;7. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;1. Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Neurology, Bobath Memorial Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Neurology, Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University, Daegu, Republic of Korea;4. Department of Psychiatry, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | In a voluntary tutor-based training program, socially disadvantaged adolescents acquired basic computer skills. Two training groups were compared: one group was instructed by adolescents, the other by adults. Both groups achieved comparable results in a final test. The tutees' learning results did not differ with respect to their initial knowledge, gender, school type, or socio-economic status, nor did these factors interact with the training group. We identified a significant interaction between the tutees' immigration status and training group. These results are interpreted on the basis of (1) the tutees' attitudes towards adolescent and adult teachers, and (2) the instructional styles of adolescent and adult tutors. Finally, the adolescents' self-esteem increased throughout the program. |
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