The Tutoring Quality Standards align with NSSA’s Framework for High-Impact Tutoring. An Advisory Group developed the standards and updates them regularly to reflect new learnings. Please see information about the February 2023 update here.
Each quality standard is grounded in research and categorized as one of the following:
- Research-Based: This recommendation comes from a robust research base.
- Research-Informed: This recommendation comes from some combination of studies of effective tutoring programs, inferences from analogous research settings, and practitioner insight.
- Emergent: This recommendation does not come from a robust research base, but from alignment among practitioners and researchers on its likely importance for quality.
A Note about Equity: Equity is one of the foundational elements of the NSSA's Framework for High-Impact Tutoring. High-Impact Tutoring programs embed equity throughout their program; therefore, equity-related quality standards are included within each of the elements rather than as a stand-alone set of equity standards.