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,…

This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three different kinds of tutoring. They then describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students'…

A human tutor must have a plan of instruction, but be able to deviate from the plan when the student behavior calls for changes. This paper presents observations of human tutors and describes the FLOW tutor system, a computer-based simulation of a human tutor that is capable of giving advice to a student learning a simple computer language. The…

Reports on the growth of tutorial programs in which children learn through teaching. (AJ)

The Help-a-Child Tutoring Project was designed to provide college students with practical tutor/teaching experience while also providing local school children with academic tutors. This project description has six subdivisions, which present brief descriptions of: (1) the project's recent history; (2) the organization and sequence of the program;…

The use of student proctors or tutors for a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) has been considered essential; however, the cost of tutorial training programs may be prohibitive. In an attempt to develop an equivalent but less expensive alternative, students (N=219) participated in an evaluation of the use of a VAX computer system as a…

Design techniques for generative computer-assisted-instructional (CAI) systems are described in this report. These are systems capable of generating problems for students and of deriving and monitoring solutions; problem difficulty, instructional pace, and depth of monitoring are all individually tailored and parts of the solution algorithms can…

Discusses discoveries about the ways writing is being taught in one university, based on student attitudes toward writing as they were revealed in a tutorial writing program. (DD)

The solution to the problem of helping minority students rests with improving the staff of tutoring programs. Administrators of programs need to pay tutors, recruit minority tutors, provide a variety of services, and encourage dialog among those involved. The new direction'' minority tutoring must go is towards making the desire to help minority…

Materials designed for use in tutoring programs in mathematics are described. A list of educational products on tutoring, subdivided into tutoring programs and tutoring kits, is provided. Listings contain information on the target audience for the product and a brief description of the contents. Ordering information for the products is included.…