Michaelidou, Anna. “The 2016 Top 5 Subjects Students Get Most Tutored For.

” ​First Tutors: Canada,​ First Tutors:

Canada +44 843 289 9165, 17 Nov. 2016,

www.firsttutors.com/uk/blog/2016/11/the-2016-top-5-subjects-students-get-most-tutored-for/​.

This article by Anna Michaelidou explains the top subjects that students struggle in from year to year. The

author used many reliable sources to look up statistics and information about what subjects children need the most

help in. Michaelidou goes into detail about the top five subjects that students get the most tutoring in, provides

graphs, and gives resources to sign up for tutoring yourself. She explains the high demand for tutors (with math

being number one across all grade levels) and how they are needed across every subject and age. This article gives

the exact background information I need to help support my Capstone with facts to use in my project, and

knowledge to help further my idea to help children. The source also gives me the resources to be able to tutor

through a their company; so in case I am stuck and need help, I can just go through their organization instead.

Wu, H. and Miller, L. (2019). ​AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS AND

SUSTAINABILITY OF A CHINESE TUTORING PACKAGE.​ [online] PCM. Available at:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297347/ [Accessed 6 Feb. 2019].

This article explains the effectiveness of one on one tutoring and how much it improved students’ quiz and

test scores. The authors used several references, most focusing on the psychological part of tutoring and how it helps

students. The scientists go through and explains their abstract, method, procedure, and results in very full detail that

helps the reader fully understand the advantages of being tutored versus not. The authors use graphs and tables so

that you can visualize the effect of tutoring. I will use this information in my Capstone to backup my thesis

statement and to look to see the methods both authors used in their experiment. I will use those methods and others I

research to improve my Capstone by having solid and factual background information.

* “Journal of Educational Psychology.” Edited by Steve Graham, American Psychological Association, American

Psychological Association, ​www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/spotlight/issue-37​.

In this article, Steve Graham studies the psychology behind the effectiveness of tutoring on young minds.

He uses many reliable sources to write his article and focuses on the law, mathematics, language, medicine, physics,

and reading comprehension. He talks more about tutoring companies and how much they have grown over the past

40 years. He states that learning is better comprehended in a one on one scenario rather than in a classroom. It gives
 the students an opportunity increase their quiz and test scores and get the help that will actually make them want to

do better when they see their grades rising. I will use this source for my capstone to make known that one on one

tutoring will improve your grades dramatically; and how many options you have to get the help you need to do so. I

will list out and give the pros and cons of going through a company against a family member or family friend.

Munley, Vincent G, et al. “The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring on Student Achievement at the University Level.”

American Economic Review,​ vol. 100, no. 2, 2010, pp. 277–282., doi:10.1257/aer.100.2.277.

In this article journal, Vincent Munley explains the effectiveness of peer tutoring compared to professional

tutoring centers. This article, compared to the others, focuses more on peer tutoring instead of tutoring from actual

centers. He goes onto explain that peer tutoring is a more personal form of help compared to strangers from a facility

that are hired to help you. Peer tutoring could be more relaxing and not so much of a tense environment. He even

provides an equation for the use of how much your grade should be raised with peer tutoring. Munley describes peer

tutoring as a ‘key component of the learning support structure’. I will use this research for my capstone to

understand the advantages to peer tutoring. Peer tutoring can be anything from a family friend helping you out at the

beginning of class or lunch, to going to signing up with a student’s own flyer.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27805004?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Shanahan, Timothy. “On the Effectiveness and Limitations of Tutoring in Reading.” ​Review of Research in

Education,​ vol. 23, 1998, p. 217., doi:10.2307/1167291.

Timothy Shanahan, in chapter six of her book, questions the integrity of tutoring (peer or organizations) in

the first place. He goes on to argue if tutoring is even effective at all in the first place. He brings up other studies

done in the past of students who tutoring has not helped. Shanahan continues to say that tutoring is the ‘active social

mediation of individual learning’. This means that people with social issues are students that aren’t going to benefit

with one on one tutoring compared to regular kids that would benefit from it. I chose this as an article for my

capstone so that I can have a variety of sources and to be more well rounded as a person. I feel like this will help

with my project by getting both sides of this ‘experiment’ and getting information from this article will continue to

help me throughout the capstone.

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