Revista Educação Especial (Dec 2008)

The effect of peer tutoring about performance of students with disabilities in inclusive classroom

  • Tatiani dos Santos,
  • Enicéia Gonçalves Mendes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X98
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 32
pp. 211 – 224

Abstract

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This study aimed at to investigate of the procedure of peer tutoring on the academic performance of pupils with intellectual disability in common classrooms of Early Education schools. Participate on the study two children with intellectual disability and twelve typical developmental as tutorial. The taught task was the recognition and the nomination of vowels of the alphabet, through playful activities, being that in the condition without peer tutoring the task was individualized and in the tutoring condition, the task was made in pairs. The results even so point that the peer tutoring can be effective in the improvement of the academic performance, although that is not applied for all of the children and the subject deserve more inquiry.

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