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Sarah Novicoff; Susanna Loeb – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, tutoring has gained popularity as a strategy to improve the academic achievement of struggling students. Intensive, relationship-based tutoring is a highly effective academic support for many students. A range of tutoring approaches are available to accelerate young students' literacy. Sarah Novicoff and Susanna Loeb…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Tutoring, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Musti, Shobana; Smith, Jesslyn M.; Begeny, John C. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
Text reading fluency is an important reading goal for all students. Students with a known reading disability often need systematic and evidence-based instructional supports to reach grade-level benchmarks in fluency. A recent focus on high-impact tutoring practices has given attention to the virtual or remote implementation of programs. This…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Tutorial Programs, Reading Improvement, Reading Fluency
Samuel Allen Patton; Douglas Fuchs; Emma L. Hendricks; Annie J. Pennell; Meagan E. Walsh; Lynn S. Fuchs; Wen Zhang Tracy; Loulee Yen Haga – Grantee Submission, 2022
Reading nonfiction texts with understanding is important to school success, yet many students struggle to do so. This randomized controlled trial extends previous research by contrasting an earlier iteration of a comprehension tutoring program (Comp) against a variant with strategies for transferring learning (Comp+Transfer). Participants were 189…
Descriptors: Nonfiction, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Samuel Allen Patton; Douglas Fuchs; Emma L. Hendricks; Annie J. Pennell; Meagan E. Walsh; Lynn S. Fuchs; Wen Zhang Tracy; Loulee Yen Haga – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
Reading nonfiction texts with understanding is important to school success, yet many students struggle to do so. This randomized controlled trial extends previous research by contrasting an earlier iteration of a comprehension tutoring program (Comp) against a variant with strategies for transferring learning (Comp+Transfer). Participants were 189…
Descriptors: Nonfiction, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Grade 5
Lucas Gortazar; Claudia Hupkau; Antonio Roldan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We provide evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a novel, 100-percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods. The intensive, eight-week-long program was delivered by qualified math teachers in groups of two students during after-school hours. The…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Students
Roschelle, Jeremy; Cheng, Britte Haugan; Hodkowski, Nicola; Neisler, Julie; Haldar, Lina – Online Submission, 2020
A randomized controlled trial investigated the research question: Do students who participate in online tutoring and a related mathematical game learn more about fractions than students who only have access to the game? Participants were 144 students from four schools, all serving low-income students with low prior mathematics achievement. In the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Tutorial Programs, Program Effectiveness, Electronic Learning
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Liu, Yanli; Yao, Jijun; Li, Wenye; Cai, Ru; Zhou, Shike – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
To improve children's academic achievements, parents often try to provide them with adequate nutrition or/and send them to attend extracurricular tutoring classes. The effect of extracurricular tutoring on students' performance has been well explored, whereas no rigorous empirical study was conducted to observe the relationship between breakfast…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Extracurricular Activities, Tutorial Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Kier, Meredith; Clark, Kelley – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
When the world abruptly halted in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, stakeholders of K-12 education sought ways to directly serve teachers, parents, and children socially, emotionally, and academically "at a distance." Elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) immediately experienced the direct and indirect impacts of the crisis as they were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Equal Education, Elementary School Students, Crisis Management
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Mozolic, Jennifer; Shuster, Julia – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2016
This report on historical trends and recent findings in the literature on academic tutoring is the first step in a community-based research collaboration between faculty and students at a small liberal arts college, the local public school district, and a nonprofit foundation that supports public K-12 education. Each year, this nonprofit…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
Misewicz, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study aimed to compare the performance of elementary students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading and mathematics between students who received SES services in grades 3-5 and students who qualified for free SES services, but did not receive SES services. Title I funds are set aside annually to pay private providers…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
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Magiera, Kathleen; Geraci, Laura M. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2014
In this paper, we describe a rural school-university 22 year partnership. The partnership serves students with disabilities and students at-risk for being classified with a disability. Despite personnel changes, the undergraduate teacher candidates have consistently provided intense instruction to their assigned students. Electronic surveys were…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Rural Schools, Universities, College School Cooperation
Thomas, Precious L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There is a cause-and-effect relationship between teaching practices and learners' success. A key challenge faced by elementary schools is finding effective ways to help all students develop the skills to be successful students. The use of tutorial instruction is often required for students to experience success in the classroom. The efforts…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Nontraditional Education, Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Bell, Edwin D.; Powell, Frankie Denise; Johnson-Green, Gwendolyn – Online Submission, 2011
This paper is a case study of the impact of a community-based, collaborative, mentoring intervention on the academic and personal success of a group of 32 students who were enrolled in Rowland Hill Latham Elementary School in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools during the year that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Models, Logical Thinking
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Shepard, Jerri – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
This article features Campus Kids, a mentoring program located at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Gonzaga is a Jesuit University with a strong commitment to social justice and humanistic education. Campus Kids began, in the true sense of a community partnership, as an attempt to connect community resources (potential university…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Best Practices
Alderete, Karen – Online Submission, 2002
This report summarizes the 2001-2002 program evaluation results of AISD's GEAR UP program.
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, College Readiness