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Direct linkWillem De Cort; Kristof De Witte – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Tutoring programs are highly effective in improving students' outcomes in higher education. However, little is known about students' demand for tutoring or the optimal design of tutoring programs. Additionally, while privately provided tutoring can threaten social mobility, little is known about students' consumption of private tutoring. Using a…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Preferences
Wu, Ejean; Yang, Shu Ching – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study examines the differential impact of tutor labeling vs. non-labeling approaches on the performance; motivation beliefs; and cognitive, social, and teaching presence of low-achieving students. Two interactive tutoring strategy patterns are investigated based on the taxonomical e-moderating model of Salmon. In addition, the tutees' online…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes, Intervention
"I Did Not Miss Any, Only When I Had a Valid Reason": Accounting for Absences from Sociology Classes
O'Sullivan, Sara; McMahon, Léan; Moore, Gemma; Nititham, Diane Sabenacio; Slevin, Amanda; Kelly, Christina; Wixted, Lisa – Teaching Sociology, 2015
In this study we explore how absence from sociology classes is understood by undergraduate students at University College Dublin. The authors use Scott and Lyman's (1968) concept of accounts to explore absence sociologically. Drawing on data generated via focus groups, an open-ended questionnaire, and an online survey with students, we outline the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociology, Undergraduate Students, Attendance Patterns
Download full textWeiss, Jill A.; And Others – 1988
The effectiveness of using volunteer reading tutors to work with students with reading difficulties was examined. Changes in academic engaged time, active responding time, achievement, and student attitude were assessed, along with information from tutor evaluations. Nine intervention and 8 control students (grades 3-5) with mild handicaps…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Maintenance, Mild Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This survey was undertaken in order to assess the nature of tutoring projects that have been implemented in schools, particularly in urban schools. It was also an attempt to locate examples of a particular kind of tutoring project, one designed primarily to promote learning in the tutors. This objective is based on the assumption that secondary…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
Eiseman, Jeffrey W.; Lippitt, Peggy – 1966
The first semester of a cross-age teaching project is evaluated in this report. Three adjacent inner city public schools, an elementary, junior high, and high school, were involved. Thirty-three teachers in the schools received 68 older students as educational agents to provide individual attention to their own students for approximately 4…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Cross Age Teaching, Demonstration Programs
