Can Tutoring at Scale Lead to Academic Recovery? One Advocate’s New Study Yields Underwhelming Results – News ad

Can Tutoring at Scale Lead to Academic Recovery? One Advocate’s New Study Yields Underwhelming Results – News ad

Going forward, Kraft said he and other researchers need to “recalibrate” or adjust expectations around the “eye-popping” or very large impacts that previous small-scale tutoring programs have achieved. Kraft described the Nashville program as “multiple orders of magnitude” larger than the pre-COVID tutoring studies. Those were often less than 50 students, while some involved a … Read more

New Studies of Online Tutoring Highlight Troubles With Attendance and Larger Tutoring Groups – News ad

New Studies of Online Tutoring Highlight Troubles With Attendance and Larger Tutoring Groups – News ad

However, online tutoring can be effective when students participate regularly. In this Northern California study, reading achievement increased substantially, in line with in-person tutoring, for the roughly 200 students who got at least 20 sessions across 10 weeks. The students who logged in regularly might have been more motivated students in the first place, the … Read more