Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur
deficient communication between students and tutors due to the lack of face-to-face contact
Beziehungsaufbau und Interaktiosfähigkeiten
Some pupils complained they were interrupted when working as the tutor could not see that they were still tackling a problem, or being pushed too hard when they did not understand. This may have been due to the lack of face-to-face contact with the tutors.
Beschreibung der Aktivität
Affordable Maths tuition programme
One to one tutoring programme where pupils receive maths tuition over the internet from trained maths graduates in India and Sri Lanka. It is delivered by the organisation Third Space Learning (TSL). Tutors and pupils communicate using video calling and a secure virtual classroom.
Großbritannien
27 weeks from September 2014 to May 2015
600 pupils
year 6 pupils
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche
Evaluierung der Aktivität
This trial was a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial. A pragmatic design was chosen to reflect as closely as possible the implementation of the programme in ‘real life’. Consequently, teachers were given significant freedom in choosing eligible pupils for the study as they would do in ‘normal’ teaching practice. This enables the results to be generalisable to similar pupils and schools outside the trial. A total of 64 schools were randomly allocated to be offered the intervention for their Year 6 pupils either in 2014/2015 (intervention group) or in 2015/2016 (acting as the waitlist control group during 2014/2015). Teachers at all participating primary schools were asked to identify eight Year 5 pupils, plus three reserve pupils towards the end of the academic year who they believed would benefit from online maths tutoring in their final year of primary school (Year 6); randomisation was carried out after teachers had identified potential pupils.
(1) total costs of the intervention per pupil per 27 weeks of tuition (2) cost rating
(1) £378 (2) Moderate: up to about £700 per pupil per year.