Paolo Virgil G. Mariano BLOCK EN Ian Steven Corsame Homework in ENLRES “Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-Analysis of Findings”
A meta-analysis of findings from 65 independent evaluations of school tutoring programs showed that these programs have positive effects on the academic performance and attitudes of those who receive tutoring. Tutored students outperformed control students on examinations, and they also developed positive attitudes toward the subject matter covered in the tutorial programs. The meta-analysis also showed that tutoring programs have positive effects on children who serve as tutors. Like the children they helped, the tutors gained a better understanding of and developed more positive attitudes toward the subject matter covered in the tutorial program. Participation in tutoring programs had little or no effect, however, on the self-esteem of tutors and tutees.
The tutoring programs offered in many elementary and secondary schools today differ in an important way from yesterday's tutorial programs. In most modern programs, children are tutored by peers or paraprofessionals rather than by regular school teachers or professional tutors. The use of peer and paraprofessional tutors has dramatically affected the availability of tutoring programs. No longer a luxury available only to aristocratic elites, tutoring programs today are open to boys and girls in ordinary classrooms throughout the country. Hundreds of teachers and researchers already have written reports on the effects of such programs on children. Although some of the reports are based on subjective impressions and informal observations and thus are of limited scientific value, other reports describe sound experimental studies of tutoring. In such studies, investigators usually compare the performance of equivalent groups of students assigned to classrooms with and