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Carly D. Robinson; Matthew A. Kraft; Susanna Loeb; Beth Schueler – EdResearch for Action, 2024
The EdResearch for Action "Design Principles Series" focuses on a single program or practice that has been proven to have positive effects on student outcomes. Authors -- leading experts from across the field of education research -- look across many high-quality studies of similar programs to identify the components and conditions that…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
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
Ayesha K. Hashim; Miles Davison; Sofia Postell; Jazmin Isaacs – NWEA, 2024
The share of at-risk students has increased post pandemic requiring a response that matches the magnitude of the impact. High dosage tutoring has been one strategy to address the needs. If implemented effectively and at the proper scale, accelerated academic growth is possible. This brief reviews the collection of research on high dosage tutoring,…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Tutoring, Pandemics, COVID-19
Wayne Harrison; Steve Higgins – Education Development Trust, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on education systems worldwide, leading to significant learning loss, exacerbating existing educational inequalities and disproportionately affecting disadvantaged students. Governments around the world have begun to invest in large-scale tutoring initiatives as a key component of their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
White, Sara; Groom-Thomas, Leiah; Loeb, Susanna – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
This study synthesizes existing research on the implementation of tutoring programs which we define as one-to-one or small-group instruction in which a human tutor supports students grades K-12 in an academic subject area. Tutoring has emerged as an especially promising strategy for supporting students' academic success with strong causal evidence…
Descriptors: Tutoring, After School Education, Tutorial Programs, Program Implementation
Andre Joshua Nickow; Philip Oreopoulos; Vincent Quan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Tutoring--defined here as one-on-one or small-group instructional programming by teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers, or parents--is one of the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools in use today. Within the past decade, dozens of preK-12 tutoring experiments have been conducted, varying widely in their approach,…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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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
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Cochran, Judith A.; Gardner-Andrews, Anna; Benson, Prescott W.; Durbin, Timothy; Peeler, Michelle – Education and Urban Society, 2017
This study profiles tutoring programs that empower urban youth within the Regional Institute of Tutorial Education (RITE), a community collaborative of universities, youth agencies, community service organizations, and school districts. Representative members of RITE detail how they address shared urban problems of academic deficits, school…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Empowerment, Community Programs, Youth Programs
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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
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Meyen, Edward L.; Greer, Diana L.; Poggio, John C. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in the United States is not equivalent to a national curriculum; however, it does set forth some conditions essential for enhancing student achievement at scale (e.g., curriculum standards, assessment standards, and expectations of compliance). The missing component within these conditions is support for…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education)
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Harmes, John M. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1986
Subjects (N=224) were elementary, middle, and high school special education students receiving the Gillingham tutorial program services in reading and language arts for one school year. In general, progress was made at more than one-half the expectancy for the nonspecial education student. Spelling showed the least improvement. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Program Effectiveness
Ehly, Stewart – 1977
Characteristics of an effective peer tutoring program for exceptional children are reviewed, and program implementation models are described. Specification of outcomes, assessment of attainment of outcomes, monitoring of project implementation, and field testing or use of a pilot project are among the characteristics of an effective program noted.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children, Models, Peer Teaching
Fleming, Frances – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1980
A Canadian program, the Learning Assistance Teacher (LAT), which provides regular classroom teachers with help for their handicapped students, is examined. (PHR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Instruction, Program Effectiveness
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Heron, Timothy E.; Welsch, Richard G.; Goddard, Yvonne L. – Remedial and Special Education, 2003
This article reviews how tutoring systems have been applied across specialized subject areas (e.g., music, horticulture, health and safety, social interactions). It summarizes findings, provides an analysis of skills learned within each tutoring system, identifies the respective methodologies, and reports relevant findings, implications, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Research Needs
Blowers, E. A. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1987
Follow-up of 34 pupils (age range 6-22 originally) who had attended a university-sponsored tutoring program 5 years earlier is discussed in terms of persistence and nature of the problems, and characteristics of subgroups including graduates from academic high school programs, graduates from non-academic programs, drop-outs, and a reportedly…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies, Learning Problems
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