Participating schools were positive about the tuition and keen to work with the Tutor Trust again, and staff saw a need for more affordable high-quality tuition¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2018: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Schools involved in qualitative interviews were positive about the tuition, keen to work with the Tutor Trust again, and confident it benefited their pupils. → Emily Buchanan 2015

Evidence¶

Emily Buchanan 2015¶

Emily Buchanan, Jack Worth, Helen Aston. (2015). Tutor Trust Primary: Evaluation report and Executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581540

q1 · i? · qualitative · r2

Findings from the process-evaluation interviews with senior leaders, classroom teachers, pupils and tutors. The report adds that "All teaching staff and senior leaders interviewed believed that there was a need for more affordable, high quality tuition".

"Schools involved in the qualitative interviews were positive about the tuition, keen to work with the Tutor Trust again, and largely confident that the tuition was beneficial for their pupils."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Some tutors, particularly those less experienced with groups of primary school children, needed more guidance, and some strings workshops struggled to keep pupils on task — related
• Schools perceived Tutor Trust tuition as most effective when tutors had strong pedagogical skills, subject knowledge, and could engage pupils and target sessions appropriately — related
• Pupils receiving Tutor Trust tuition made marginally less progress in English and mathematics than matched comparison pupils, with differences not statistically significant — related
• Delivering the Tutor Trust programme cost approximately £185 per pupil, based on groups of three pupils receiving 25 tuition sessions — related
• Year 11 pupils receiving Tutor Trust English tuition achieved lower English GCSE scores than comparison pupils (effect size −0.16), but this difference cannot be attributed to the tuition — related
• Year 11 pupils receiving Tutor Trust mathematics tuition achieved slightly higher mathematics GCSE scores than comparison pupils, but this difference cannot be attributed to the tuition — related
• Schools involved in qualitative interviews were positive about the tuition, keen to work with the Tutor Trust again, and confident it benefited their pupils — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)