Does Math Tutoring Help? – Math Tutor – Carlsbad
by Stuart Raffeld
FROM: U.S. Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development Policy and Program Studies Service
Evidence suggests that academic tutoring may be an effective way to help students improve their academic skills, stay in school, and/or graduate from high school. One experimental study of the Match tutoring program,2 an intensive small group math tutoring program in which students receive one hour of tutoring each day from primarily recent college graduates, found that students participating in Match tutoring had higher math test scores and math grades than those who did not participate (Cook et al.
B. A. Operations Research & Statistics, California State University, Long Beach, Teaching Assistant undergraduate Mathematics. B.S. Mathematics, California State University, Long Beach. Mathematics University of California, Irvine, Teaching Assistant undergraduate Mathematics. Completed course work for MS Degree with 4.0 GPA. M.S. Mathematics, Kingsbridge University. Transcript available upon request. 1988-Present: Mathematics tutoring--One on one tutoring for SES students through YP institute and Academic advantage. Tutored students with low learning skills as well as very bright students. Tutored groups of four students in math classes from basic mathematics through calculus. Mathematics teaching for EFN, Inc., a private school.