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Download full textAschenbach, Cheryl; Blake, Ted; Gavaskar, Vandana; Sanchez, Ray M.; Whetzel, Tascha – Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2022
The primary purpose of this paper is to emphasize and reiterate the centrality of the faculty role in tutoring and learning centers, where peer-to-peer, discipline-specific collaborative learning is the primary objective. This paper provides a breadth of content for practitioners in the field and also assists those seeking to understand the unique…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Tutoring
Peer reviewedBai, Yunfeng; Tang, Xueli; Li, Xingfang; Fan, Shunan – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This article focuses on rarely explored organizational practice of teaching research in China's private tutoring industry. Taking a large private tutoring institution as an example, the article examines how private tutoring institutions understand and engage in educational explorations of standardization and informatization processes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Teaching Methods, Private Education
Direct linkArco-Tirado, Jose L.; Fernandez-Martin, Francisco D.; Fernandez-Balboa, Juan-Miguel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The purposes of this study were, on one had, to determine the impact of a peer tutoring program on preventing academic failure and dropouts among first-year students (N = 100), from Civil Engineering, Economics, Pharmacy, and Chemical Engineering careers; while, on the other hand, to identify the potential benefits of such tutoring program on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests
Fullmer, Patricia – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2009
This article summarizes the use of SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis and subsequent action planning as a tool of self-assessment to meet CAS (Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education) requirements for systematic assessment. The use of the evaluation results to devise improvements to increase the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Program Evaluation
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2007
With the number of students eligible for federally financed tutoring continuing to grow, school officials and tutoring providers are fighting over the scope of the program and debating how to measure its quality. As Congress revisits the tutoring initiative and other sections of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, lawmakers want answers to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Standards, Reading Teachers, Tutoring
Meyen, Edward L.; Greer, Diana L.; Poggio, John C. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in the United States is not equivalent to a national curriculum; however, it does set forth some conditions essential for enhancing student achievement at scale (e.g., curriculum standards, assessment standards, and expectations of compliance). The missing component within these conditions is support for…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education)
