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JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Student psychology appears to be at play. A longer study would be needed to see if the psychological trick persists.

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JULY 31, 2020

Several programs aimed at keeping incoming freshmen on track for college and others that provide tutoring to elementary students are scooping up jobless undergraduates as mentors in relationships that benefit everyone. So he applied to the Tennessee Tutoring Corps. I had no second option lined up,” Oates said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. 15, 2024, documented widespread psychological distress among teenage girls and preteen boys since the pandemic. Chronic absenteeism is another big factor.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. In college, during my experience [tutoring] at the elementary school, I had a student who inspired me. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then. That would’ve been in college for you. That just really solidified it for me.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Under Pressure There are a number of theories about how math anxiety relates to performance, according to Colleen Ganley, an associate professor of developmental psychology at Florida State University. She’s seeing tutors, but they haven’t been useful. “I So what does that mean for students with this anxiety? No,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

The kit includes things like academic coaching, writing assistance, supplemental instruction and tutoring. Each college selected courses with high DFW rates, including classes in math, chemistry, biology, psychology and English. As a part of the trial, they also re-enrolled students in the courses they’d failed, at no cost.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Their meta-analysis was published in the July 2024 issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. It’s an easy way to bring math concepts into your day to day life that doesn’t require buying special equipment, or setting aside time to tutor your child and try to teach them arithmetic.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. This requires not only technological acumen but also psychological insight and emotional resilience. Integrating AI into education is just beginning.

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MARCH 23, 2020

Lauren Wright, a sophomore psychology major at Stevenson University in Maryland, is stuck in her apartment near campus because her mother is ill and can’t risk the exposure. And the Student Relief Fund , which was set up to assist students facing homelessness and hunger because of the crisis, has raised $95,000 so far.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. Kulik Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-analysis of Findings. Social constructivist perspectives on teaching and learning. Brown, Collins, and Duguid (1989). Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. Educational Researcher, Vol. – Feb., Peter A Cohen, James A.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

As the investigation of this case continues, let us remember that many hardworking young people don’t have the means to hire private tutors to coach them through the SAT, or private counselors that may review and edit their college application essays. The post OPINION: Shocked by the college admissions scandal?

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MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Among the groups trying to change such childhood messages is an American Psychological Association task force aimed at getting teachers and others to better understand boys and their educational needs. “[R]igid The community college is trying to increase its enrollment of men.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The director of professional development formed faculty book clubs to discuss Claude Steele’s “ Whistling Vivaldi ,” a book about “stereotype threat,” which is a psychological theory about how minorities perform worse in environments where people like them traditionally don’t succeed. We have a problem in America.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. They also can, and often do, circumvent the public system entirely by hiring private reading tutors or sending their children to private schools focused on reading remediation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Since making that decision, Burns has changed course and is now pursuing a high school equivalency degree, with tutoring help from the Durham Literacy Center. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. She picked working at a McDonald’s.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Another 2015 study found that non-monetary rewards were useful in getting young kids to attend an after-school tutoring program. There’s also a psychological critique of rewards, with many arguing that they undermine a child’s ability to develop his or her internal motivation to do the right thing.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

In February, the pre-teen traveled to the Boston area for two days of psychological evaluations, including a thorough reading assessment. So the family opted to hire a private tutor to work with the child. In March, a doctor followed up by observing the boy at school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

She took classes on campus and planned to major in psychology, but she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. Yet Krip did so well that she became a chemistry tutor for other students. “I In 2018, Nicola Osgood was serving on active duty and considering resuming the higher education she had paused years before.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Sophisticated programs can adjust to each student’s needs and pace, like a personal tutor. Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University professor of human-computer interaction and psychology. Advocates like the way that educational software can alert kids to their mistakes right away and help to fix them more quickly. Kids love them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare. Most still read at an elementary school level.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It doesn’t follow from that that more choice is always better,” said Barry Schwartz, professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of “The Paradox of Choice,” about the psychological ramifications of a supermarket culture that offers 175 kinds of salad dressings and 275 breakfast cereals.

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MAY 12, 2022

Another tutors. Her workload—and the mental, psychological and financial burden they carried—had become untenable. “I amaze myself,” she says, sounding truly amazed. “I I don’t know how I do it.” Most of the other teachers in her school have outside jobs as well. One is a travel agent on the side. Another sells cosmetics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Valeria Flores Morales, a sophomore psychology major at the University of Puerto Rico, was admitted to a top-ranked mainland university her family could not afford. “It It makes us really angry to see people getting all the opportunities in the world just because they’re rich.” Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

Cruz along with several of his peers have made use of the college’s tutors to keep up. The program doesn’t just test students’ math skills, it also tests their physical and psychological fitness for the job. Cruz said some of the wind turbine work is similar to servicing pump units for the oil company.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals. Her mother is an English tutor working for the school district and her father works at Tyson. Both of the elder Valladolids are from Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Until a decade ago, however, the group’s education experience was limited to after-school tutoring and a Head Start program in Puerto Rico. Last year, the organization served roughly 27,000 children and families through programs that support foster kids, youth with disabilities, expectant parents and juvenile offenders.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

But, while the results of research on what might work to catch kids up is not always clear-cut, many education experts point to tutoring as a tried-and-true method. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. Nitta says he was optimistic that Watson could power a generalized tutor, but he knew the task would be extremely difficult. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Yet another explanation is a psychological one. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math. Many of them are from wealthier families who can afford tutors, or attend well-resourced schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.” I tell our students, it’s like tutoring. If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

“No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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JULY 1, 2017

Jimerson and a staff of tutors arranged for her to take the classes she would need to graduate, and made sure she received a free lunch, school supplies and other basic necessities. Last year, Marks said, homeless students who had received tutoring scored up to 2.6 The extra assistance set her on a much less rocky path.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

These structures exist in first-year writing seminars at many colleges, where students get dedicated tutoring and institutional resources to help them succeed. Instead, if students are in jeopardy of failing, there should be an early identification system to support them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Tutors, financial aid counselors and academic advisers are always available online, he said. Kramer settled on Arizona State University’s online program, which has allowed her to work toward a bachelor’s degree in psychology as she moves from place to place. We build it so they really don’t need to come to campus,” Bustamante said.

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