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Factors affecting weekday-to-weekend sleep differences among Korean adolescent students: Focus on extracurricular tutoring time.

PLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectivesDiscrepancy in weekday-weekend sleep induces negative effects on physical health, obesity, psychological disorders, and academic performance; this particularly affects adolescent students through extracurricular tutoring, including evening self-
Jin-Won Noh, Young Dae Kwon, Jooyoung Cheon, Jinseok Kim   +3 more
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Bray, M. (2009). Confronting the shadow education system: what government policies for what private tutoring? Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning. [Book review] [PDF]

, 2012
Book review of: Bray, M. (2009). Confronting the shadow education system: what government policies for what private tutoring? Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning.
Askerc, Katarina, Plesec Gasparic, Romina   +1 more
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Market-Making Practices of Private Tutoring in Finland: Commercialization of Exam Preparation for Admission to Higher Education

ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: This study focuses on courses that prepare applicants for universities’ highly competitive entrance examinations in Finland. The analysis clarifies the market-making practices and the construction of this field.
Suvi Jokila, Nina Haltia, Sonja Kosunen
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Shadow Education in Uzbekistan: Teachers’ Perceptions of Private Tutoring in the Context of Academic Lyceums

Orbis Scholae, 2020
Private tutoring is a globally widespread phenomenon which can be associated with marketization and privatization. After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the transition to a free-market economy in Uzbekistan facilitated the rise of informal private ...
Sherzod Khaydarov
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Shadow Education and Its Academic Effects in Bangladesh: A Vygotskian Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Private tutoring is a newly emerging field of research, which remains largely under-theorized. Adopting the Vygotskian philosophy of learning as an analytical lens, this qualitative study conceptualized the academic effects of private tutoring in a ...
Md. Bayezid Alam, Zhiyong Zhu
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Death at Intervals

Senectus
Saramago, J. (2015). Ölüm Bir Varmış Bir Yokmuş. İstanbul: Kırmızı Kedi.
Merve Ayar Yılmaz
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The effectiveness of private tutoring: students’ perceptions in comparison with mainstream schooling in Hong Kong. [PDF]

, 2013
This paper examines Hong Kong students’ perceptions on the effectiveness of private supplementary tutoring relative to mainstream schooling. Drawing on survey and interview data, it shows that large proportions of secondary school students receive ...
Bray, TM, Kwo, OWY, Lykins, CR, Wang, D, Zhan, S   +4 more
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Private tutoring as shadow education: Comparative overview [PDF]

Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja
Private supplementary tutoring in school subjects, which takes place outside of regular school classes and is paid, is not unfamiliar in many education systems.
Spasenović Vera
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Does private tutoring improve student learning in China? Evidence from the China Education Panel Survey

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2020
Based on data from the China Education Panel Survey, which covers 28 counties/districts of China, this study applies a difference‐in‐differences method (combined with propensity score matching in some analyses) to estimate the impacts of private tutoring
Yuhe Guo, Qihui Chen, Shengying Zhai, Chunchen Pei   +3 more
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Regulating Private Tutoring for Public Good : Policy Options for Supplementary Education in Asia [PDF]

, 2014
Fulltext in: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002270/227026E.pdfRecent years have brought global expansion of private supplementary tutoring alongside regular school systems.
Bray, TM, Kwo, OWY
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