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Measuring Tutoring Effectiveness Through Data
In this National Student Support Accelerator webinar, we will cover the ways in which tutoring programs can utilize data in order measure their program’s effectiveness in terms of both student learning and tutor teaching quality.
‘What Would It Mean to Equalize Access to Tutoring?’ Brown University’s National Student Support Accelerator Aims to Find Out
“There is a lot of evidence that tutoring can produce large learning gains for a wide range of students, especially students who have fallen behind,” says Carly Robinson, a postdoctoral research associate at the institute. “Tutoring raised to the top of the list of what could put a dent in unprecedented learning loss. Tutoring works.”
The institute quickly developed the National Student Support Accelerator, still in its startup phase, to bring together researchers, schools and donors to help give K-12 students nationwide access to tutoring. Robinson says the goal is to make tutoring effective and then implement that effectiveness at scale.
Personalizing Tutoring Sessions
In this National Student Support Accelerator webinar, we will be discussing a crucial component of any successful tutoring program: how to best personalize your program’s tutoring sessions to students' individual needs and learning styles.
Throughout this video, we will walk through the importance of personalizing tutoring, traits to look or train for in your tutors, what data to utilize in order to measure student and tutor progress, and what potential learning barriers tutors may identify in students along the way.
5 qualities of effective in-school tutoring programs
Done well, high-impact tutoring can help individual students accelerate their learning and increase their engagement with school, said Susanna Loeb, director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University and a panelist. But designed poorly, tutoring can be ineffective, she said.
As momentum grows to build high-quality tutoring opportunities into the school day, and as more federal stimulus funding for student learning becomes available, districts should consider tutoring initiatives, Loeb said. “This may be the best opportunity we'll have to get this proven intervention built into schools for the long run, to provide all students in need with the high-impact tutoring to supplement their classroom work,” she said.