Tutoring is highly effective, and hiring older peers as tutors supports learning gains for both older and younger students¶
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q2 i? Research demonstrates tutoring can be highly effective and that older peers as tutors, mentors, and coaches support learning gains for both older and younger students. → Summer Learning and Beyond: Opportunities for Creating Equity 2021
Evidence¶
Summer Learning and Beyond: Opportunities for Creating Equity 2021¶
Summer Learning and Beyond: Opportunities for Creating Equity. (2021). Spencer Foundation & Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/summer-learning-creating-equity
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Design Principle 5 section, a narrative synthesis, states that "tutoring can be highly effective" and that cross-age peer tutoring benefits both tutors and tutees. No specific studies, samples, or effect sizes are printed.
"Research has demonstrated not only that tutoring can be highly effective but that hiring older peers as tutors, mentors, and coaches supports learning gains for both older and younger students."
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Related Claims¶
- Tutoring benefits both tutors and tutees — a broader claim this one bears on
- Peer-assisted learning interventions improve achievement for elementary students — related
- Structured Peer Tutoring Outperforms Unstructured — related
- Human tutoring has a medium effect over no tutoring, and in one small study students learned as well when tutors only prompted them as when tutors also explained and gave feedback — related
- The review reports that college tutors who espoused a malleable view of intelligence to their tutees improved their own academic performance, with benefits for tutees as well — related
- Cross-age tutoring produces a small-to-moderate positive effect on academic outcomes for both tutors and tutees — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Cross-age tutoring effects on tutees do not significantly differ by number of sessions, tutor type, tutee risk type, or subject area — related
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Tutoring is highly effective, and hiring older peers as tutors supports learning gains for both older and younger students |
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Tutoring is highly effective, and hiring older peers as tutors supports learning gains for both older and younger students |
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