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This paper addresses the issue of academic tutoring as a way to keep students informed properly, avoid lagging student …
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advocate for foster children's educational needs. An important example of these efforts is tutoring programs for children in … foster care. The current study uses random assignment to evaluate the impact of an individualized, home-based tutoring … and program groups report receipt of tutoring from school, which may partly account for the finding of no effect. …
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were exposed to an individualized direct-instruction tutoring intervention delivered by their foster parents would …-two foster children were randomly assigned to the experimental (tutoring) group and 35 to the wait-list control group. The sub …
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Children in foster care are frequently behind in educational achievement (Flynn, Ghzal, Legault, Vandermeulen, & Petrick, 2004) and perform below grade level (Trout, Hagaman, Casey, Reid, & Epstein, 2008 for a review).
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Schools in developing countries frequently offer for-profit tutoring to their own students. This potentially gives … teachers a perverse incentive to teach less during school to increase demand for their tutoring. Through this mechanism, the … market for tutoring can adversely affect student learning, especially for students who do not participate in tutoring. I …
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We assess the causal effect of private tutoring on the probability of university placement in Turkey. We find that … tutoring increases the probability of being placed in a university when non-random selection is ignored. Moreover, among those … utilizing private tutoring, greater expenditure on tutoring is also positively associated with university placement. However, we …
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the learning process more effective. They are characterized by different features. Therefore, identifying tutoring styles …, the authors address the problem of extracting tutoring styles from tutors' behavior. According to this later, tutors are … step, a set of indicators are defined to characterize a tutoring style. In the second one, the accuracy between the …
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. The activity of tutoring is influenced by many factors. One factor among them is the assignment of the appropriate profile …. This technique facilitates the classification among tutors for adapting tutoring to student's problems. The component of … tutor. A fuzzy logic technique is used in order to define tutor's tutoring profile. Furthermore, the K nearest neighbor …
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