What the Research
Says About the
Impact of Tutoring
on a Child’s School
and Testing Success

It is a helpless feeling that can leave the most competent mother or father feeling frustrated and lost. When a parent watches their child struggling in school, they want to do whatever they can to relieve their child’s pain. They want to know: Will tutoring help my child?

In fact, the answer is yes. Study after study has shown that one-on-one tutoring does help. The benefits of tutoring abound. It improves performance, increases grades, builds overall confidence, inspires motivation, and reduces anxiety. It’s more than just a solution to a temporary academic crisis – it can make all the difference in a child’s academic trajectory.

By the time parents seek out tutoring services, they are often at about their child’s school challenges:
• Sammy is struggling with reading and falling behind in his grades... he’s lost confidence in himself and is starting to hate school.
• Soon-Mi went from a class of 26 students in-person to the same number of kids online during Covid shutdowns. She had trouble paying attention in her big Zoom classroom and missed learning key math concepts before the class moved on to new material that relied on her understanding what she had failed to learn. This left her with holes in her math knowledge and feelings of incompetence in class.
• Ajay has a gifted test coming up and his parents aren’t familiar enough with the material to help him prepare.
• Josiah is ahead of his peers, bored in school, and beginning to act out in class. His parents say he’s desperate for more challenging material than what’s being taught in the curriculum.

In each of these cases, one-to-one tutoring may be the solution. Personal support from an educator other than a parent or teacher will allow your child to navigate their academic journey with confidence and readiness. Read on to discover the findings of the large body of research on the benefits of tutoring and how it can transform your child’s school success.