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Salman Khan; Monica Bhatt; Jonathan Guryan; Jimmy Kim – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Early literacy is a key developmental milestone for succeeding in school, yet far too many children in America, particularly the most socially vulnerable, are not meeting this key milestone. For example, NAEP data from 2013 shows that over 80% of Black and Latinx students are below proficient in reading by the end of fourth grade, as compared to…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Achievement Tests, Emergent Literacy, Reading Achievement
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Pletcher, Bethanie C.; Nicol, Marilyn; Harper, Tracy; Hollenbaugh, Michelle; Johnson, Robin; Staples, Michele – Reading Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine the effects of a tutorial program on first-grade children's reading skills and their tutors' (also preservice teachers) knowledge of reading instruction. Participants consisted of a group of 30 first-grade children served in the program and a control group of 30 children. Literacy…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Tutors, Elementary School Teachers
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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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Sutherland, Moria – Teaching Artist Journal, 2016
An examination of the American school system through the case study of a kindergarten classroom.
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Art Education, Integrated Activities
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Mosley Wetzel, Melissa; L. Roser, Nancy; Hoffman, James V.; Antonio Martínez, Ramón; Price-Dennis, Detra – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
The authors, a team of literacy teacher educators who are focused on extending our own understandings of preservice teacher (PST) learning, conducted a cross-case analysis of how PSTs learned to teach literacy in three concurrent practicum experiences. We draw on Grossman's framework of representations, decompositions, and approximations to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Practicums
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Hoffman, James V.; Wetzel, Melissa Mosley; Peterson, Katie – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2016
In this study, we examined the learning of preservice teachers associated with the features of a literacy tutorial experience. Our qualitative study focused on the close inspection of the experiences of 7 focus cases out of the 19 preservice teachers enrolled in our program across a one-semester tutorial experience. Through our research we…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Literacy, Qualitative Research, Tutoring
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Jacob, Robin; Armstrong, Catherine; Bowden, A. Brooks; Pan, Yilin – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This study evaluates the impacts and costs of the Reading Partners program, which uses community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring to struggling readers in under-resourced elementary schools. The evaluation uses an experimental design. Students were randomly assigned within 19 different Reading Partners sites to a program or control…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Tutorial Programs, Randomized Controlled Trials, Tutors
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Goldman, Juliette D. G.; Grimbeek, Peter – Pastoral Care in Education, 2016
The processes of puberty are now commonly observed in primary school-aged students. Schools, therefore, need to address puberty and sexuality education for students' health, well-being, safety and pastoral care. Similarly, preservice teacher education needs to address future primary school teachers' unfamiliarity and lack of confidence with these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
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DuBois, Matthew R.; Volpe, Robert J.; Hemphill, Elizabeth M. – School Psychology Review, 2014
Given that many schools have limited resources and a high proportion of students who present with deficits in early literacy skills, supports aimed at preventing reading failure must be simple and efficient and generate meaningful changes in student learning. We used a randomized group design with a wait-list control to extend the work of Volpe,…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Tutoring
Munter, Charles; Garrison, Anne; Cobb, Paul; Cordray, David – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
In this paper, the authors describe a case of measuring implementation fidelity within an evaluation study of Math Recovery (MR), a pullout tutoring program aimed at increasing the mathematics achievement of low-performing first graders, thereby closing the school-entry achievement gap by enabling them to achieve at the level of their…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Program Implementation, Measurement
Green, Sarah Elizabeth; Smith, Thomas – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The goal of the overall study was to evaluate the potential of Math Recovery (MR), a pullout, one-to-one tutoring program, to increase mathematics achievement among low-performing first graders, thereby closing the school-entry achievement gap by enabling them to achieve at the level of their higher-performing peers in the regular mathematics…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Tutors, Teacher Characteristics
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Johnson, Todd E.; Maring, Gerald H.; Doty, John H.; Fickle, Michelle – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2006
This article is a descriptive study of an evolving cybermentoring videoconferencing practice and tool developed to support preservice teacher training. Cybermentoring projects are synchronous distance learning collaborations using high-end video conferencing to foster interactive learning and tutoring among preservice teachers and K-12 students,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Videoconferencing, Preservice Teacher Education, Distance Education