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Matthew A. Kraft; Virginia S. Lovison – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Budget constraints and limited supplies of local tutors have caused many K-12 school districts to pivot from individual tutoring in-person toward small-group tutoring online to expand access to personalized instruction. We conduct a field experiment to explore the effect of increasing student-tutor ratios on middle school students' math…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Teacher Student Ratio, Middle School Students, Small Group Instruction
Inns, Amanda J.; Lake, Cynthia; Pellegrini, Marta; Slavin, Robert – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2019
This article reviews research on the outcomes of diverse reading approaches on the achievement of struggling readers in elementary schools. 61 studies of 48 different programs met rigorous standards. 84% were randomized experiments and 16% quasi-experiments. Outcomes were positive for one-to-one tutoring and were positive but not as large for…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Program Effectiveness
Chevere, Rebecca Melendez – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent struggling readers in the middle school (Grades 6-8) respond to interventions implemented through the response to intervention (RtI) model after being identified as having deficits in reading comprehension and fluency. The study examined progress of struggling sixth-grade students…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Response to Intervention, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension