Tutoring for Success
The average tutored student performs better than 98% of their non-tutored peers.
For parents wondering whether tutoring will facilitate their child’s ability to succeed, ample research has substantiated the powerful effects of tutoring for students of every ability level.
In a study by acclaimed educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom, the average tutored student performed better than 98% of their non-tutored peers. The study highlighted the importance of differentiated instruction and providing regular corrective feedback corresponding to the children’s needs to help them achieve mastery of concepts. Moreover, in a study by Roland Fryer at Harvard’s EdLabs, students who received math tutoring outperformed their peers by 200%.
Tutoring improves standardized test scores.
Today, standardized test scores are more important than ever in determining children’s futures, as standardized tests qualify student's for gifted programs and school admissions, even impacting their college entrance outcomes. There is therefore more interest than ever in boosting student performance on standardized tests.
According to a study conducted by Columbia University, tutoring increased the scores of average performing students by 4-6 percentage points, and of underperforming students (those in the 25th percentile or lower) by an average of 7.2 percentage points.
Tutoring also increased exit examination scores by 11 to 12 percentage points on average.
Various studies have also demonstrated the measurably positive effects of tutoring on classroom grades. The Journal of Genetic Psychology stated that the positive effect of tutoring on a students’ grades correlates with the number of tutoring sessions, indicating that more tutoring results in higher grades.
The National Institute of Health also reported that 79% of students experienced a statistically significant increase in grades after participating in a course of tutoring.
Tutoring keeps students in school longer.
We’ve looked at studies showing that tutoring boosts a child’s success rate in school on an immediate basis. But what about long-term outcomes? Does tutoring support a student’s higher test scores and classroom performance over the course of their full academic careers?
Studies overwhelmingly support that it does. A college that sought to evaluate whether its tutoring and learning assistance program had benefited re-enrollment outcomes found that 82% of tutored students re-enrolled during the fall and spring semesters, in contrast to an institutional average of 70%. A greater number of tutored than non-tutored students, the college also found, continued to pass their courses