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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"private tutoring"”.
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Private Tutoring and Distance Learning Process at the Open University of Tanzania
For any ODL system, tutoring is an important student support service. This study aimed at assessing private tutoring and how it relates to the process of learning at the Open University of Tanzania. The specific objectives of the study were to explore learners’ perception of private tutoring, to …
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A narrative inquiry into the experience of a practical nursing graduate with private tutoring
… of students experiences both one to one tutoring over time and educational accommodations. In this Narrative Inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000), my co-participant and I go on a journey together to explore how a graduate from an Ontario Registered Practical Nursing program with a …
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BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR ENGLISH-AS-A-FOREIGN LANGUAGE TUTORS DURING PRIVATE TUTORING
… Extended Learning were asked to participate in tutoring sessions offered by tutors who participated in a community of tutors. Tutors embraced new teaching strategies that they acquired through participating within a community of practice, sharing their background knowledge and teaching …
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Private tutoring and its impact on students' academic achievement, formal schooling, and educational inequality in Korea
Over the last two decades, private tutoring has emerged as an important issue in education as its demand has been growing around the world. However, the evidence of the effectiveness of private tutoring is still mixed. Using the Korean Educational Longitudinal Survey, this dissertation explores the …
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The Determinants of National College Entrance Exam Performance in China - With an Analysis of Private Tutoring
This study ascertains the effects of private tutoring and other factors on student performance in the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China, using first hand data collected in a typical Chinese city in 2010. Three identification strategies including the instrumental variable model, …
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Essays on the effects of parental education and private tutoring on children's education outcomes, and the rural-urban student achievement differential in China
… effect. Chapter 3 estimates the causal effect of private tutoring on Chinese and mathematics test scores of primary school students in urban China. Because the unobserved determinants of schooling achievement often influence private tutoring expenditure, OLS cannot provide a consistent estimate. …
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Essays on the effects of parental education and private tutoring on children's education outcomes, and the rural-urban student achievement differential in China
… effect. Chapter 3 estimates the causal effect of private tutoring on Chinese and mathematics test scores of primary school students in urban China. Because the unobserved determinants of schooling achievement often influence private tutoring expenditure, OLS cannot provide a consistent estimate. …
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The Economic Impacts of Migrant Maids in Malaysia
… human capital formation include maids and private tutors, in addition to the more typical inputs of parents and teachers. Previous studies of these atypical inputs from other Asian countries ignore the cumulative nature of learning by just examining contemporaneous impacts of maids, private …
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Intercultural Perspectives on Managing Organizational Change in Response to Government Policy Reform: A Case Study on the Leadership of New Oriental Education
… triggered a significant upheaval in the private tutoring sector of China by fundamentally transforming prevailing business models and financial viability within the industry. New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (New Oriental Education), one of the preeminent private tutoring …
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School Choice Overseas: Are Parents Citizens or Consumers?
… the High School Equalization Policy (HSEP), private tutoring, change in the study abroad law, and the role these play in leading some families to leave their domestic local schools. A survey questionnaire was administered to two groups of parents - parents whose children attend school …
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Three essays on the economics of human capital development
… out on a place are more likely to invest in private tutoring and exam preparation for selective schools.
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Shadow Education:Its nature role and function in British International schools in Hong Kong.
… the provision of supplementary education by tutoring agencies, ‘cram schools’ and other private, typically for-profit organisations that assist in the achievement of successful examination results. This thesis will attempt to research the role which ‘shadow education’ plays in modern day Hong …
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Languaging and learning compared across EFL course delivery modes
… i) face-to-face group classes; ii) one-to-one private tutoring sessions; and iii) individual online courses. Conducted within a Vygotskian (1978, 1987) sociocultural framework, data for this quasi-experimental study include recordings of pairwork in group classes and of tutor-learner …