The effects of a tutorial-friend relationship on elementary school isolates.

The purpose of this study was to investigate empirically some of the possible effects that female students in the college of education-- who were involved in a field experience for Educational Psychology 2430, Child Study-- had on third and fourth grade male and female isolates. Fifty-two isolates were matched on sex and sociometric status-- thirteen matched male pairs and thirteen matched female pairs. The treatment for the experiinental subjects consisted of being involved in a one-to-one tutorial-friend relationship with a college female for one hour a week for seven weeks. This interaction consisted of the college student tutoring the isolate in an academic subject while concomitantly establishing a waxxn genuine friendship.