The COVID-19 pandemic shifted higher education online, drawing attention to synchronous learning and instruction on digital communication platforms. Learner-centered teaching practices in the tertiary level, such as mathematical discussions, have been shown to benefit student learning. The interactions involved in online synchronous mathematical…

The Perach Project is a one-to-one tutoring program for the socially disadvantaged. This study's main purpose was to locate Perach Project children two years after they had been tutored in order to determine their situation in school, measure their school self-concept, aspirations, and attitudes towards school, and examine their feelings about the…

The Perach Tutorial Project, in which university students tutor Israeli children from socially disadvantaged areas in mathematics and reading, was originally designed for pupils in grades 5-8. This study investigated its use with children in grades 3, 4, 6, and 7 tutored for the regular one-year period or for two years. At each grade level, 11…