High-quality tutoring produces large learning gains cost-effectively, in person and virtually¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The tutoring literature shows tutoring can produce large gains achieved cost-effectively both in-person and virtually. → Darling-Hammond 2020

Evidence¶

Darling-Hammond 2020¶

Darling-Hammond, L., Schachner, A., & Edgerton, A. K. (with Badrinarayan, A., Cardichon, J., Cookson, P. W., Jr., Griffith, M., Klevan, S., Maier, A., Martinez, M., Melnick, H., Truong, N., Wojcikiewicz, S.). (2020). Restarting and reinventing school: Learning in the time of COVID and beyond. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. http://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/restarting-reinventing-school-covid

q2 · i? · review · r1

In the Priority 7 section on expanded learning time, the report cites a well-established literature on tutoring effects, describing 'large gains that can be achieved cost-effectively both in-person and virtually.' No effect size is printed.

"There is a well-established literature on the positive effects of tutoring, which can produce large gains that can be achieved cost-effectively both in-person and virtually."

Discussion¶

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