Pupils receiving Tutor Trust tuition made marginally less progress in English and mathematics than matched comparison pupils, with differences not statistically significant¶

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q2 i? Participating pupils made marginally less progress than pupils in the comparison group in English and mathematics, and the differences were not statistically significant. → 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

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Quasi-experimental evaluation comparing tutored pupils with propensity-weighted comparison pupils from the same secondary-school cohorts using weighted linear regression. The report's results table prints effect sizes of -0.08 (English, all pupils) and -0.04 (maths, all pupils), described as "marginally less progress than pupils in the comparison group".

"On average, participating pupils, including those eligible for free school meals, made marginally less progress than pupils in the comparison group. However, the differences in outcomes were not statistically significant, meaning that they could have occurred by chance."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Socioeconomic Status — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group

Related Claims¶

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• Delivering the Tutor Trust programme cost approximately £185 per pupil, based on groups of three pupils receiving 25 tuition sessions — related
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• 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