...Peer Tutoring: Its Effect on the Achievement and Attitude in Physics Of high School Senior Students of Naval Institute of Technology ---------------------------------- A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Leyte Normal University Tacloban City ---------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Teaching (Science) ---------------------------------- by Minerva E. Sañosa February 1996 ABSTRACT This study attempted to assess the effects of peer tutoring on the achievement in and attitude towards Physics of high school senior students of Naval Institute of Technology, SY 1995-1996. Five high school senior students with the highest grade point average from first year to third year high school in English, Mathematics, and Science were used as peer tutors. The subjects of the study were fifty high school senior students randomly selected and assigned into two groups, the peer tutored or experimental group and non-peer tutored or the control group. The two groups answered the achievement test in electromagnetic energy and a scale to measure attitude towards Physics before and after the conduct of study. The result indicated that students in both groups increased their level of achievement during the study. Morever, with the use of two-tailed test, it was revealed that the level of achievement of students in...
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...Process Report 1: Current Business Analysis The current state of business Noon child-care, a kind of private institution to take care of children and students whose parents cannot spare time to pick them up because of their works. The organization is in charge of children’s lunch, nap and giving guidance in their study, most of children are from elementary school. Child-care is an inevitable outcome of development of society. Not only to solve the problem of parents who cannot take care of kids, but also create a new industry, giving job opportunities to a part of people. Current business analysis According to statistics, there are two hundred million of students in China, and about 40% students need tutoring after school, that is eighty million students. If each student costs one grand, there is about eighty billion market size. And based on the pressure of study, 90% of parents have urgent need of one-to-one tutoring service. Shenzhen, a vigorous city of southern China where inhabited by a large number of citizens who are potential customers of child-care centre. There are seven hundred eighty thousand elementary school and high school students, and thirty-five thousand of them are in noon child-care centre. We found that most of child-care a focus on life care, and could not help much on studies of children. Compared with other training institutions, we minimize the cost, realizing the advantage of the chain management; sending the...
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...distribution strategy. Bryan’s Tutoring service will leverage its competitive edge to gain market share. These advantages offer students significant values including individualized and group tutoring, specialized handout material, tutoring specific to courses and professors, and the ability for the service to explain difficult concepts using easy-to-understand ideas and examples. The last advantage, the Systematic Analysis Framework provides students with a problem solving approach that is useful to the current question as well as being applicable to all of the student's other courses. The marketing strategy will seek to work closely with different professors enabling Bryan's tutoring to get a steady stream of referrals from the professors. The marketing strategy will also rely on focused advertising through the print media, spread across student newspaper advertisements, targeted flyers in campuses, posters in student areas and direct mailers to the students. The sales strategy will be focused on converting students into customers. One facet of this strategy is the offering of periodic complimentary sessions, designed to be an introduction to new students who are unsure if they will benefit from tutoring. We expect to have a high conversion rate into paid students from these free sessions. (Bryan’s Tutoring Services) 2. Provide the following marketing strategy information: The real key to this business is staying ahead of the changing student roster. It is important to get...
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...Industry Analysis 3 Competitor Analysis 3 Target Market 4 Strategic Positioning 4 Critical Risks 4 Economics of the Business and Operations Plan: 5 Primary Ten Year Plan 5 Details of Alternative Plans 6 Analysis………...…………………………………………………………………………………7 Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………………….…7 Appendix 8 References…………………………….…………………………………………………………11 Proposed Business Problem Statement The importance of obtaining a college education to work in today’s society cannot be overstated. That is why in recent years high schools have started to encourage students to pursue a college education as well as begin to prepare the students for college. The current methods high schools are implementing offer general ways of preparing students for college that are often times ineffective and lack proper execution. Since college preparation is critical for high school students to increase their chance of successfully graduating from college, it is now more crucial than ever before to provide proper college preparation for tomorrow’s college students. However college preparation requires more than just helpful techniques for studying and teaching yourself. College preparation also requires a good amount of hard work and learning core subjects that form the foundation for which we build our knowledge upon in college. We are aware that the majority of future jobs involve science, mathematics, and technology skills to be successful in, that is why our tutoring subjects will...
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...strategy. Bryan’s Tutoring service will leverage its competitive edge to gain market share. These advantages offer students significant values including individualized and group tutoring, specialized handout material, tutoring specific to courses and professors, and the ability for the service to explain difficult concepts using easy-to-understand ideas and examples. The last advantage, the Systematic Analysis Framework provides students with a problem solving approach that is useful to the current question as well as being applicable to all of the student's other courses. The marketing strategy will seek to work closely with different professors enabling Bryan's tutoring to get a steady stream of referrals from the professors. The marketing strategy will also rely on focused advertising through the print media, spread across student newspaper advertisements, targeted flyers in campuses, posters in student areas and direct mailers to the students. The sales strategy will be focused on converting students into customers. One facet of this strategy is the offering of periodic complimentary sessions, designed to be an introduction to new students who are unsure if they will benefit from tutoring. We expect to have a high conversion rate into paid students from these free sessions. (Bryan’s Tutoring Services) 2. Provide the following marketing strategy information: The real key to this business is staying ahead of the changing student roster. It is important...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: Dana FROM: Tim DATE: May 31, 2011 RE: SWOT Analysis of Xueda Education Group Introduction: Xueda Education Group (“Xueda”) is a leading personalized tutoring service provider for primary and secondary school students in China. Xueda listed in New York Stock and Exchange on November 2, 2010 (NYSE:XUE). Strengths: 1. Leading Brand As the founder of personalized tutoring service in China, Xueda is highly-recognized in China tutoring industry and was also ranked as the industry leader in 2009 according to IDC, an independent market research company. 2. Nationwide education resources As of March 31st, 2013, Xueda has 389 training centers and 12,229 full-time professional teachers in 73 cities of China. These nationwide education resources ensure Xueda to maintain the service quality across the country and reach the economic scale. 3. The personalized tutoring model The personalized tutoring model enabled Xueda to meet the specific needs of students which differentiated Xueda from other competitors, which mainly provide classroom-based tutoring services. Weaknesses: 1. The challenge to balance the service quality and business expansion. The tutoring centers of Xueda grew from 108 in 2008 to 389 as of March 31st 2013. The rapid expansion leads to the rapid and huge demand on human resources, operational and management resources. 2. The resignation of professional management team members In 2012, the director...
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...Ninomiya 1.0 Executive Summary 2.0 Situation Analysis At this present time, the tutoring industry is not showing any signs of slowing down as the number of students in school continue to grow. It is also important to point out that as the number of students increase, so does the concern of the parents that seek tutoring for their children. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of students who were attending public and private schools was at approximately 75.9 million as of the fall of 2010. The current trend is showing that the number of students attending school will continue to increase at a rate of approximately 6% per year through the year 2019 (Digest of Education Statistics 2010). According to an article that went over the best industries to start a business, the tutoring and exam preparation industry was rank seventh as it relates to the fastest-growing industries that are hospitable to small business. It was also indicated that the year-over-year growth rate of this industry was measured to be at 7% (Lagorio-Chafkin 2010). However, there is an opportunity that has not clearly been taken advantage of to its fullest potential within the tutoring industry. As of the fall of 2010, there were approximately 20.6 million people who are enrolled in college with the trend demonstrating an increasing rate of students attending at 14% (Digest of Education Statistics 2010). There are a large number of students who are attending college at the undergraduate...
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...Are the SATS fair? If not how could us students change this and make the test fair for everyone? Is the SAT test fair for all races, genders and socioeconomic statuses? This question interested me because we discussed part of it for our first paper. In our first paper we didn’t go to in depth about the SATS but they were a part of the paper. This interests me due to how serious colleges take the SATS. With the SATS some colleges won’t even look at your application. If there are tricks to this test that allows some students to score higher than others this wouldn’t be fair. Dartmouth College had a large amount of wealthy students even though they offered free tuition to the students whose families made $100,000 or less. “At Dartmouth, free...
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...Research Spotlight on Peer Tutoring NEA Reviews of the Research on Best Practices in Education Found In: teaching strategies 145 Peer tutoring is a term that’s been used to describe a wide array of tutoring arrangements, but most of the research on its success refers to students working in pairs to help one another learn material or practice an academic task. Peer tutoring works best when students of different ability levels work together (Kunsch, Jitendra, & Sood, 2007). During a peer tutoring assignment it is common for the teacher to have students switch roles partway through so that the tutor becomes the one being tutored. Since explaining a concept to another helps extend one’s own learning, this practice gives students the opportunity to understand better the material being studied. What does the research say about peer tutoring? In reviews of peer tutoring programs, researchers found: * When students participated in the role of reading tutor, improvements in reading achievement occurred * When tutors were explicitly trained in the tutoring process, they were far more effective and the students they were tutoring experienced significant gains in achievement * Most of the students benefited from peer tutoring in some way, but same-age tutors were as effective as cross-age tutors (Burnish, Fuchs & Fuchs, 2005; Topping, 2008) Some benefits of peer tutoring for students include higher academic achievement, improved relationships with peers, improved personal...
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...Community Involvement Plan Allison Martyn Grand Canyon University: ECH-325 June 26, 15 Here at ABC Elementary School, we value each student’s success. We believe that community involvement benefits our students and gives them the motivation to go above and beyond their expected potential. Our staff for early childhood level, has come up with a Community Involvement Plan that will allow students, teachers, and family members to work together and create a striving learning environment. This involvement plan will include resources that will positively influence our students learning in our classrooms. This plan will also go into depth about our first grade Read Across ABC elementary program. Jacksonville Public Library The public...
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...CMO Address of School Confidentiality Agreement The undersigned reader acknowledges that the information provided by Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC staff in this business plan is confidential; therefore, reader agrees not to disclose it without the express written permission of Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC. It is acknowledged by reader that information to be furnished in this business plan is in all respects confidential in nature, other than information which is in the public domain through other means, and that any disclosure or use of same by reader may cause serious harm or damage to Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC. Upon request, this document is to be immediately returned. ___________________ Signature ___________________ Name (typed or printed) ___________________ Date Table of Contents I. Table of Contents 3 II. Executive Summary 4 III. Company Description 6 IV. Marketing Plan 8 V. Operational Plan…………………………………………………………………………… 22 VI. Financial Plan 32 VII. Exit Strategy 39 VIII. Appendices & References 41 Executive Summary Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC (BMA) will be a private school that offers group tutoring, individual tutoring, and a student supply store. BMA is scheduled to open on August 13th, 2012 at 113 Cumberland Avenue in Madison, Tennessee. The school and tutoring programs are on a year round schedule where the classes will meet for 45 days and break for 15 days. The owners chose a year round schedule so students have a more cohesive...
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...School Improvement Plan Brenda C. Galbreath Grand Canyon University: EDA: 575 January 15, 2014 Principals and school improvement teams must be familiar with state and local board requirements related to managing and using fiscal resources and must comply with these requirements in developing and implementing school improvement plans. School Data and Summary Analysis Review school data and consider a variety of perspectives including overall school/student performance, sub-group performance, attendance, teacher satisfaction, instructional practices (from walk-throughs/observations), and student learning (also from walk-throughs/observations as well as data). What does the analysis tell you about your schools strengths? 1. There is a strong sense of pride in the school from the community. Community members are active and involved in the school and are well-received by administrators, support staff, and teachers. 2. Teachers have access to sufficient technology in the school and have the opportunity to receive training so that they can utilize the technology to best meet the needs of the diverse student population. 3. Results from staff satisfaction surveys indicate that the school is clean and well-maintained. 4. Overall, Scotland High is making growth in academic achievement. What does the analysis tell you about your schools gaps or opportunities for improvement? 1. There are significant gaps in achievement among ethnic subgroups at Scotland...
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...children; it will also explain how it affects students and how we can help them. Those who are unfamiliar with the disability will receive an introduction to dyslexia’s characteristics as well as a description of proven methods which have been most effective in helping dyslexic students achieve success. The goal of this analysis is to provide an overview of why a percentage of our children is having difficulties and determine what is interfering with their ability to learn to read and write. During my observance of these students, I noted that these children have dyslexia. I can now understand why so many frustrated parents of children with learning disabilities (LD) with dyslexia lobbied for the establishment of special classes in schools for children with dyslexia. [P]arents pushed for LD programs in schools for two main reasons: many did not see their failing children as mentally retarded and therefore refused to accept placement for them in classes for the mentally retarded, and schools did not provide services for children with severe reading or language difficulties unless they qualified for an existing special education category. …by the late 1950s, medical and psychological research, combined with parental pressure, led to the development of special school programs to meet the needs of a population of children that always had existed but only recently had been recognized. The ideological message in this interpretation is that schools, supported by medical and psychological...
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...comprehension among students in today’s society is of high importance. The ability to be college ready in reading and writing categories is a need that many students struggle with at the college level. This paper will focus on an action plan to alleviate those needs and allow for students to be better prepared for future challenges in reading and writing that await them. This paper will address deficiencies, challenges, and strategies to improve the literacy program at Anywhere ISD in Anywhere, Texas. Reading Program Action Plan A reading program plan should be determined by meeting the needs of the students it plans to serve (Ediger, 2010). In determining an action plan for meeting the students of my school there are several key factors I have to evaluate. School funding issues are prevalent in every state in America and in order for this to be effective funding issues need to be established. For the sake of argument this reading program action plan is built on the assumption that funding is not an issue but student success is of more importance. This action plan will focus on 8th grade students at Anywhere ISD in Anywhere, Texas. Based upon data, two thirds of 8th graders read below grade level (Martello, Martello, Modder man, Peterson, & Pan, 2013). Gunning (2013) suggests ten principles in implementing a successful reading program for all students to be successful. In order for these principles to be effective proper monitoring of all students in the reading program...
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...funds into a school can be quite a challenge, especially in a situation where there is only one funding source. Because the schools in the state are not allowed to levy local taxes, a plan will have to be created to ensure that appropriate actions are in place to make sure that there is an equalized distribution of funding. “Average Daily Attendance (ADA) counts are based on the numbers of children actually in attendance in a school or district each day. Average Daily Membership (ADM) measures the numbers of children enrolled to attend a specific district throughout the year” (retrieved from schoolfinance101.wordpress.com). For example, at a particular school in a district there is a population of 1,000 students with 90% attendance and the weighted pupil units per district is $5,000. When using ADM, the weighted pupil units will remain at $5,000. However, if ADA is being used, the actual WPU would be $4,500. This would be a $500 decrease. With the aforementioned definitions of ADA and ADM, I would choose to use Average Daily Membership when distributing funds. Because ADA uses attendance rates, schools with lower attendance rates would suffer. Research shows that “districts with high poverty concentration and high minority concentrations have lower attendance rates for reasons beyond control” (retrieved from schoolfinance101.wordpress.com). Unfortunately, Louisiana has several districts with both high poverty and high minority concentration. Though these students are not there...
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