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Direct linkTansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma – Economics of Education Review, 2006
This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparing for the competitive university entrance examination is an important, widespread phenomenon in Turkey. Private tutoring centers are commonly referred to as "dersane" in Turkish. This study first gives an overview of private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Demand, Tutoring, Private Education
Warnakulasooriya, Rasil; Palazzo, David J.; Pritchard, David E. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
We studied students performing a complex learning task, that of solving multipart physics problems with interactive tutoring on the web. We extracted the rate of completion and fraction completed as a function of time on task by retrospectively analyzing the log of student-tutor interactions. There was a spontaneous division of students into three…
Descriptors: Physics, Tutoring, Internet, Feedback (Response)
Calfee, Jane – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2007
This article examines the relationship between the use of online tutoring sessions and student success in developmental writing courses. The results suggest a statistically significant difference between the success rates, as measured by course grades, of those students who use the tutoring service and those who do not, thus suggesting the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Tutoring, Academic Achievement, Writing (Composition)
Download full textHamm, Jerry; And Others – 1996
The Teacher/Tutor Room (TTR) was created by the Special Services staff at Coweeman Junior High School (Kelso, Washington) to provide academic support for their "special needs" students in the least restrictive environment without giving them an obvious label or stigmatizing them by putting them in a special class. Students who need…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, High Risk Students, Individualized Instruction, Junior High Schools
Gaustad, Joan – OSSC Bulletin, 1992
Traditional large-group instruction is geared toward one type of learning style and often assumes a specific cultural background. Tutoring, as a way to augment traditional instruction and help students with special needs, is examined in this bulletin. Following the introduction, chapter 1 reviews evidence supporting the effectiveness of tutoring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Houston, Linda; Johnson, Candice – 1993
After much trial and error, the Agricultural Technical Institute of the Ohio State University (ATI/OSO) discovered that training of writing lab tutors can best be done through collaboration of the Writing Lab Coordinator with the "Development of Tutor Effectiveness" course offered at the institute. The ATI/OSO main computer lab and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Course Descriptions, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions
Hudson, J. Blaine – 1988
This study reviewed the organization and operations of the University Tutoring Program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) through the 1986-1987 academic year. The study also described the demographic and academic characteristics of the year's tutoring population and analyzed the outcomes of the use of tutoring services. A database for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
MacDonald, Ross B. – 1986
These three papers present an organizational framework, an evaluation plan, and a training plan for an integrated cross-curricular tutorial program at Los Medanos College. First, the position paper establishes a standing committee to oversee the Second Generation Tutoring Program and the policies under which the program operates. It focuses on the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
Collins, Carter H.; And Others – 1982
Unusual because they involve students above the primary level, the programs described in this report are designed to involve parents more fully in the education of their children. Presented are 28 programs in grades 4-12 initiated by school systems in large cities and operating during the 1980-81 school year. Information about the programs was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Home Study
Davis, Dan; And Others – 1984
Children's, teachers' and principals' reports are used to estimate the extent of tutoring activities in Israeli elementary schools and to provide information on their implementation. Eight studies evaluating the tutoring process and its effect on achievement, motivation, and self-concept are described. The data show that about 5% of elementary…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Heintz, Paul – 1975
The High School Homework Program was designed to provide eligible high school students, grades 9 through 12, with intensive individualized remedial instruction in reading, mathematics, and language as well as assistance with daily homework assignments. The major objectives of the program were to help students who were two or more years retarded in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, College Students, High School Students, Homework
Williams, Richard W. – 1981
This two-part module was prepared to assist instructors in designing and implementing a peer tutoring program. After introductory material and the presentation of a rationale for peer tutoring, Part I begins by stating learning objectives and providing a pretest. It then presents an overview of peer tutoring, outlining a systematic tutoring…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Learning Modules, Peer Teaching
ADAMS, EFFIE KAYE – 1967
SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION PROVIDED FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS OR SMALL GROUPS OF STUDENTS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC PROGRESS AND PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT TO CLASSROOM WORK IS DISCUSSED. TUTORING IS CONSIDERED THE HEART OF THE REMEDIAL AND CLINICAL READING PROGRAM IN A COLLEGE READING LABORATORY. DATA FROM QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO 40 COLLEGE READING CLINICS…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Clinical Diagnosis, Dropout Prevention, Individualized Programs
George, John E.; Prugh, Linda S. – 1974
This paper reports on an intensive, highly-structured, one-to-one tutoring system used as a model program. The "Tutor-Student System in Beginning Reading," the basic instructional material for the model program, was developed to train tutors to say and do what the reading specialist normally says and does when teaching reading in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Snow, Jerry; And Others – 1975
The purpose of the Tutorial Assistance Program evaluation was to determine the impact of tutoring on student achievement and academic abilities. Three questionnaires were completed by 178 males and 163 females at the University of Texas at Austin who received tutoring in the 1975 spring semester. One questionnaire was completed prior to tutoring…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Research
