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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

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He took college classes for credit, received tutoring and advising and learned about other services available on campus and where to find them. “I We want the students to stay in their major of choice,” he said, whether in the sciences, social sciences or otherwise.

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Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests

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A third group of students had access to a revised version of ChatGPT that functioned more like a tutor. But on a test afterwards, these AI-tutored students did no better. Even a fine-tuned version of ChatGPT designed to mimic a tutor doesn’t necessarily help. Afterwards, they took a test to see how well they learned the concept.

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College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them

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And in the past, administrators at some colleges have replaced their services with all-encompassing tutoring centers or third party organizations, Wynn Perdue adds. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says. Johnson and her team train their tutors to teach students about how AI can be useful in the writing process.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Logue originally sought to conduct a simpler, cleaner study of only algebra, comparing the remedial prerequisite to the college course plus tutoring support.

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PROOF POINTS: Pandemic relief money is flowing to class-size reduction but research evidence for it isn’t strong

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Lead researcher Trine Filges, an economist at the Danish Center for Social Science Research, sees the oft-cited Tennessee experiment not as indicative of what class size reduction can achieve but as one “very old study,” now dating back more than 30 years. Tutoring is a good research-proven place to start. Follow the evidence.

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Despite popularity with parents and teachers, review of research finds small benefits to small classes

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Slavin suggests that it might be more effective to operate larger classes, supplemented by one-to-one tutoring for kids who need it. Would you rather your child were in a small class with an average teacher versus a larger class with a good teacher? Reasonable people can disagree. Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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Six reasons you may not graduate on time

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Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Instead of taking some random history course, you might choose “History of Science,” which counts toward both F.S.U.’s Three missed meetings are grounds for expulsion. “We