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Youngjin Lee – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study investigates the development and evaluation of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based statistics tutor designed to assist students with quantitative analysis methods. The RAG approach was employed to address the well-documented issue of hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs). A computer tutor was developed that utilizes…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Teachers, Students
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Tiffany-Anne M. Elliott – Assessment Update, 2025
The robust body of literature on the benefits of tutoring services clearly indicates a strong correlation between tutoring and student success. The students who most need tutoring, however, are least likely to utilize it. Because of this challenge, a writing center serving a medium-sized Midwestern community college explored how implementing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Pilot Projects
Monica G. Lee; Susanna Loeb; Carly D. Robinson – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Student absenteeism surged during and after the pandemic, harming engagement and achievement. We evaluate the impact of Washington DC's High-Impact Tutoring (HIT) Initiative--designed to mitigate learning loss through targeted academic supports--on student absenteeism. Using daily attendance data and a within-student fixed effects design, we find…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Learner Engagement
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Julie E. Doty; Nathan E. Thompson – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Near-peer tutoring (NPT) programs are popular vehicles to supplement traditional delivery of medical school curricula, including for anatomy laboratory (AL) content. While NPT programs can result in improved preclinical coursework performance for tutees, little to no data specifically show a benefit of NPT in AL course performance. In 2021, NYIT…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Peer Teaching, Medical Students, Medical Education
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Rita Ramirez-Levine; Donna Rennar-Potacco; Venkat Sharma; Peter Zhiqiang Chen – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2025
This 4-year longitudinal study identified the impact of a multifaceted mentoring and tutoring program on the retention and graduation rates of a diverse body of undergraduate college students enrolled in high-risk science courses. Findings revealed that the program was successful in increasing the retention and graduation rates of students who…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, STEM Education, Mentors, Tutoring
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Ciaran O'Sullivan; Michael Grove; Ciarán Mac an Bhaird; Peter Mulligan; Kirsten Pfeiffer – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2024
Tutors play an important role in effective Mathematics Learning Support, and ensuring good initial training and development is key. Typically, in the UK and Ireland, tutors do not gain any formal recognition for the training they receive. This paper details a four competences model of training for tutors and presents the analysis of feedback from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutor Training, Tutors, Tutoring
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Lutfun Nahar; Riza Sulaiman – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Studying and solving geometry questions are the most challenging parts of mathematics for visually impaired students (VIS). This study begins with the needs assessment to identify the needs of VIS, which shows that technology-assisted effective teaching and learning are not available for VIS to learn geometry. Therefore, this study focuses on…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Computer Oriented Programs
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Mark Locherer – Cogent Education, 2024
In this article, we outline the process undertaken to establish and evaluate a mathematics centre at the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences. Firstly, we outline some of the current research into centre evaluation. Secondly, we give a brief overview of our centre, including details on staffing, teaching format, goals, etc.…
Descriptors: Universities, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods, Program Evaluation
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Cathia Papi; Caroline Charbonneau; René Beauparlant; Marie Beigas – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
This study focuses on the practices implemented by tutors, considering education professionals, especially teachers, on the one hand, and on the other, non-education professionals, namely students. Interviews with 24 tutors, inspired by the explicitation interview technique, enabled us to determine that the nine most frequently implemented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutor Training, Tutoring, Tutors
Matthew A. Kraft; Danielle Sanderson Edwards; Marisa Cannata – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Public school systems across the U.S. have made major investments in tutoring to support students' academic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluate a large urban district's efforts to design, implement, and scale a district-operated, standards-based tutoring program across three years. We draw on extensive interviews and survey…
Descriptors: Public Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, Tutorial Programs