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Marissa Strassberger; Barbara Condliffe – MDRC, 2024
High-dosage tutoring-defined as consistently scheduled tutorials during the school day in which students work with a trained tutor in small groups (for example, four students to one tutor) at least three times per week--is among the most promising educational interventions for improving student learning. Despite their appeal, high-dosage tutoring…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Tutors
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Evthokia Stephanie Saclarides; Jen Munson – Learning Professional, 2024
For coaches, access to classrooms isn't straightforward and is far from guaranteed. Access is a prerequisite for coaching, yet there are many barriers beyond a coach's control, making their job difficult to impossible. In this article, the authors detail how five administrative and structural forces shaped coaches' access to teachers' classrooms.…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutors, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
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Mills, Melissa; Rickard, Brian; Guest, Bob – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
Mathematics tutoring centres exist in varying forms at universities across the United States of America. Despite having similar goals, these centres vary a great deal in their practices, resources, and organizational structures. In this study, the researchers conducted a survey of mathematics tutoring centres in the United States in an effort to…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Mathematics Instruction, Tutorial Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Lawson, Duncan; Grove, Michael; Croft, Tony – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
Mathematics support, the provision of additional learning opportunities to, primarily, non-mathematics specialist undergraduates has grown significantly since the early 1990s, particularly in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Alongside the growth in volume of provision, there has been a marked increase in the amount of research and scholarship…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Remedial Mathematics, Student Characteristics, Tutors
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Beach, Kristen D.; Washburn, Erin K.; Gesel, Samantha A.; Williams, Paula – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
This exploratory investigation examined the transformation of a traditional summer reading intervention (SRI) to synchronous virtual format in response to school closures due to COVID-19. Goals were to adapt and describe the adaptation of the in-person intervention to the virtual environment, examine program outcomes, and understand tutor and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction