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Sara M. White; Leiah J. Groom-Thomas; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Tutoring has emerged as an especially promising strategy for supporting students academically. This study synthesizes 33 articles on the implementation of tutoring, defined as one-to-one or small-group instruction in which a human tutor supports students grades K-12 in an academic subject, to better understand the facilitators and barriers to…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Program Implementation, Individualized Instruction
Maria V. Carbonari; Anna McDonald; Michael DeArmond; Andrew McEachin; Daniel Dewey; Emily Morton; Elise Dizon-Ross; Atsuko Muroga; Dan Goldhaber; Alejandra Salazar; Thomas J. Kane; Douglas O. Staiger – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated student achievement, with declines rivaling those after Hurricane Katrina. These losses widened achievement gaps between historically marginalized students and their peers. Three years later, achievement remains behind pre-pandemic levels for many students. This paper examines 2022-23 academic recovery efforts…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Grants, Emergency Programs
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Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Good, Annalee – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
The field of education is progressively building capacity and tools for producing rigorous research evidence to use in improving educational practice and outcomes. The knowledge base is lacking, however, in explicating the dynamics of research-based decision making and exploring connections between the work of research-practice partnerships and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Research Utilization, Use Studies, Outcomes of Education
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Zapata-Rivera, Diego; Zwick, Rebecca; Vezzu, Margaret – Educational Assessment, 2016
The goal of this study was to explore the effectiveness of a short web-based tutorial in helping teachers to better understand the portrayal of measurement error in test score reports. The short video tutorial included both verbal and graphical representations of measurement error. Results showed a significant difference in comprehension scores…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Tutorial Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Web Based Instruction
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Rayner, Christopher; Fluck, Andrew – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The shift towards the inclusion of students with disabilities in regular schools has meant that general classroom teachers need to be skilled in educating students with a diverse range of needs and abilities. Together with theoretical study and as a supplement to practical experience, teacher educators have begun to explore virtual and simulated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Inclusion
Clayton, Kara; Murphy, Amanda – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2016
Smartphones are regular classroom accessories. Educators should work with children to understand the capacity of smartphones for learning and civic engagement, rather than being a classroom distraction. This research supports a collaborative project the authors engaged in with students in two states to discover what the perception of smartphone…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs, Technology Uses in Education
Burch, Patricia; Good, Annalee; Heinrich, Carolyn – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
There is considerable variation in how providers of digital education describe what they do, their services, how students access services, and what is delivered, complicating efforts to accurately assess its impact. We examine program characteristics of digital tutoring providers using rich, longitudinal observational and interview data and then…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Electronic Learning
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Costigan, F. Aileen; Light, Janice – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: This tutorial is designed to teach speech-language pathologists (SLPs) best practices to support functional seating of children with cerebral palsy (CP) in the classroom and in school-based therapy sessions. This tutorial teaches SLPs to (a) recognize the positive effects of seating intervention, (b) identify the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Intervention, Cerebral Palsy
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Massey, Dixie D.; Lewis, Jan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
As teacher educators, we continue to focus on tutoring experiences as ways to help tutors connect coursework to practice. This study presents a preservice tutoring program designed to provide a field-based experience where the tutors would be able to (a) learn about literacy instruction, (b) use a multitude of assessment data rather than…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Tutors, Data Analysis, Literacy
Hipkins, Rosemary – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2011
Literature that discusses transformative change in schools typically draws on experiences of renewal and change in existing schools. This report explores the shaping of a new school with the intent, established at the very outset, of offering a curriculum for the 21st century. The report discusses four key aspects of curriculum innovation at this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Educational Change, Governing Boards
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Bregvadze, Tamar – International Education Studies, 2012
During the past decade Georgia has received strong international support for education reform, and it represents an interesting case by which the effectiveness of particular interventions in the region can be assessed. Most attempts to analyse progress within the system have so far been concentrated on two aspects of formal education: private and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Supplementary Education
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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Sakar, A. Nurhan; Ozturk, Oznur – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In 2006, following the Bologna Process, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) adopted a resolution and changed the curriculum of teacher training higher education institutions. This curriculum revision introduced a new course called "Community Service" which aims to raise students' awareness of their responsibilities as individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Web Based Instruction