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School Choice and Private Tutoring

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Is private supplementary tutoring effective? A longitudinally detailed analysis of private tutoring quality in China

Asia Pacific Education Review, 2021
In general, private supplementary tutoring is considered an effective means of improving academic achievement by parents. However, previous studies have produced partial or inconclusive results regarding its effectiveness. Thus, the present study conducted a comprehensive analysis based on a specially designed longitudinal survey of private ...
Lidong Wang
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Does private supplementary tutoring matter? The effect of private supplementary tutoring on mathematics achievement

International Journal of Educational Development, 2021
Abstract Participation in private supplementary tutoring (PT) is a global educational phenomenon especially prevalent in East Asia. This study conducted a student-report questionnaire, collected school reports of mathematics achievement to track retrospective longitudinal variations of PT over half a year, and obtained an analysis of the impact of PT
Lidong Wang
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Expansion and effectiveness of private tutoring

European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
Private paid tutoring is one of the most common approaches of remedial instruction to improve school performance of poorly performing pupils. The expansion of private tutoring was affirmed in a study with 904 pupils in Luxembourg. 23% of the participants reported that they receive tutoring at present, mainly in the subject matter of Mathematics ...
Ludwig Haag
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The Economics of Private Tutoring [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This paper develops a two-sector, general equilibrium, overlapping generations model to study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of private tutoring, when education is publicly provided. Young agents have heterogeneous endowments of human capital, which they can augment through mandatory public education, and elective private ...
Dessy, Sylvain E.   +2 more
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The Demand for Private Tutoring in Turkey

open access: yes, 2013
This chapter focuses on the private tutoring phenomenon in Turkey. It seeks to analyse the impact of the revision of primary school curriculum on the demand for private tutoring. It also outlines various academic, economic and social implications of private tutoring.
Hülya Koşar Altinyelken   +1 more
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Corruption risks of private tutoring: case of Georgia [PDF]

open access: yesAsia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
The paper focuses on teacher-supplied private tutoring in the context of post-Soviet Georgia, and elucidates the ways in which teacher-supplied private tutoring can be related to educational corruption. The paper draws on data from in-depth interviews of
Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
exaly   +2 more sources

Why private tutoring? [PDF]

open access: possibleEducational Studies, 2007
Introduction to Bray M. Private Supplementary Tutoring: Comparative Perspectives on Patterns and Implications.
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Tutor +, A Website That Connects Students With Private Tutors

2018
The goal of this project is to create an online platform, where students can easily find and hire private tutors. Students from different levels as well as majors will be able to find the tutors that best suit their needs, as many tutors with a variety of different skills, qualifications, and rates are available in one place.
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