Scaffolding techniques of expert human tutors
In Kathleen Hogan and Michael Pressley (eds.) Scaffolding Student Learning: Instructional Approaches and Issues, Cambridge, MA, 1997, pp. 108–144
Abstract
conducted a detailed examination of the overall goals, the general strategies, and the specific motivational and instructional techniques of demonstrably expert and effective human tutors watched and taped several dozen experienced tutors working with varying numbers of individual students, in tutoring sessions that lasted from 30–60 min each all of [the] tutoring sessions involved elementary-level mathematics