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Chuanjian Zhang; Na Sun; Yueshuai Jiang; Huacong Liu; Qinhui Huang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Peer tutoring has become a widely used practice in higher education institutions to support students' academic success, although its effects remain controversial. This article synthesizes 27 independent experimental and quasi-experimental studies to examine the relationship between peer tutoring programs and college students' academic performance,…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Academic Achievement, Higher Education
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Long, Stephanie; Volpe, Robert J.; Briesch, Amy M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The importance of letter sound knowledge (LSK) as a precursor to later literacy skills has been well-documented. Since English language learners (ELLs), or students who first acquired a language other than English, continue to underperform in reading compared to their English-speaking peers, they are particularly at-risk for reading and academic…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Andre Joshua Nickow; Philip Oreopoulos; Vincent Quan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Tutoring--defined here as one-on-one or small-group instructional programming by teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers, or parents--is one of the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools in use today. Within the past decade, dozens of preK-12 tutoring experiments have been conducted, varying widely in their approach,…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education