In one university's records, minority students visit a drop-in tutoring center more often than Caucasian students, while first-generation and other students do not differ in visits¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2010 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2013: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? Minority students visited the TC more often than Caucasian students (F=9.472, p=.002); there was no significant difference in visits between first-generation and non-first-generation students. → Cooper 2010

Evidence¶

Cooper 2010¶

Cooper, E. (2010). Tutoring Center Effectiveness: The Effect of Drop-In Tutoring. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 40(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ887303 doi:10.1080/10790195.2010.10850328

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Observational comparison of visit frequency by ethnicity and first-generation status in the two fall 2007 cohorts. The article also reports, citing Kezar & Eckel, that for tutored classes both minority and first-generation students had lower average GPAs than Caucasian or non-first-generation students.

"On average minority students visited the TC more often than did Caucasian students (F= 9.472, p=.002), but there was no significant difference between the visits of first generation and non-first generation students."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Socioeconomic Status — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Drop-in one-to-one tutorial attendees improved P1X-to-P1Y marks while the class average declined — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
High-use tutoring center visitors had significantly higher cumulative GPA than non-visitors, with the main difference between >10-visit and no-visit groups — related
The GPA advantage of high-use tutoring visitors held across math SAT score, high school GPA, ethnicity, and first-generation status — reports the opposite
Tutoring center visits usually showed no significant difference in individual course performance, and sometimes tutored students performed worse — related

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`title`	`In one university's records, minority students visit a drop-in tutoring center more often than Caucasian students, while first-generation and other students do not differ in visits`
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