Uncertain evidence for online tutoring
Jill Barshay,
Hechinger Report,
Feb 17, 2022
Some companies make grand claims about the benefit of online tutoring, but their claims should be treated with caution, according to this article. I completely agree. I spent seven years tutoring by telephone for Athabasca University, and sometimes it really worked, and sometimes it did noting. "We haven't proven that online tutoring is guaranteed to work," said Matthew Kraft, an economist at Brown University who led the Chicago study (5 page PDF). "But we haven't gotten evidence to say this is really going to tank... Trust but verify... It's probably true that some kids make huge gains. Whether all kids did is maybe a different question, and not the one that they're trying to convince you they answered."
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