The effect of private tutoring on performance in mathematics in Turkey: A comparison across occupational types

Unal, Hasan; Özkan, Erdoğan Mehmet; Milton, Sande; Price, Kacey; Curva, Fely

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.899

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“…The methods can help students raise scores on writing tests and are deemed useful by most students. This finding is consistent with the positive impact of EPT in improving students’ test performance reported in other contexts, for example, in Bangladesh ( Nath, 2008 ), Germany ( Mischo and Haag, 2002 ), and Turkey ( Ünal et al, 2010 ).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Private tutoring, a.k.a. shadow education, has been widely researched in a range of countries and regions 1 , e.g., in Bangladesh ( Nath, 2008 ; Mahmud, 2021 ), Cambodia ( Edwards et al, 2020 ), Canada ( Aurini and Davies, 2004 ), China ( Bray, 2013 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ), Egypt ( Fergany, 1994 ), Hong Kong ( Bray and Kwok, 2003 ; Yung, 2015 , 2019 , 2020 ), Ireland ( Smyth, 2008 ), Germany ( Mischo and Haag, 2002 ), Japan ( Stevenson and Baker, 1992 ; Allen, 2016 ), South Korea ( Lee, 2010 ; Exley, 2020 ), Turkey ( Ünal et al, 2010 ), and Vietnam ( Dang, 2007 ). Private tutoring in English is known as English private tutoring.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The “secrets” of English private tutoring in China: Chinese students’ experiences of study abroad test preparation in cram schools

Zhang

Zhang²,

Gao³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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English private tutoring, a.k.a. “shadow education” has been an important way that international students rely on for overseas test preparation. Despite the plethora of research on private tutoring in various countries and regions, scarce research focuses on the type of EPT that prepares students for overseas tests. Therefore, this study investigated the experience and perceptions of EPT in preparing for overseas writing tests of 187 Chinese students through retrospective interviews and questionnaires. The present study investigated Chinese students’ experience in and perceptions of EPT for study abroad writing test preparation. The results showed that most students received EPT in writing in various ways at cram schools and they devoted themselves to EPT in cram schools intensively. They favored EPT in cram schools mainly because the test-taking strategies taught there could help them obtain a higher grade on the writing section in overseas tests. With respect to writing teaching in cram schools, the most frequent teaching activities included teaching test-taking strategies and providing writing templates. Although most students acknowledged the usefulness of EPT in writing in terms of preparing themselves for the writing test, it was not necessarily the case for improving their general writing abilities. The students believed that the writing instruction was test-oriented and had a ceiling effect in improving their general writing abilities. However, with enough long time in EPT, the cramming nature of cram schools can be less obvious.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “secrets” of English private tutoring in China: Chinese students’ experiences of study abroad test preparation in cram schools

Zhang

Zhang²,

Gao³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…For example, Tansel and Bircan (2005) and Gurun (2008) found that the manner in which private tutoring affects achievement is greater than the effect of SES on achievement, while Kang (2007) reported exactly the opposite. Ünal et al. (2010), on the other hand, reported that SES and private tutoring have similar effects on student achievement.…”

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“…The key control measure is SES, which also mediates the effect of private tutoring on achievement. While some studies fail to account for SES (Lee et al., 2004; Ono, 2007; Sohn et al., 2010), many others treat SES simply as a control variable (Dang, 2007; Gurun and Millimet, 2008; Kang, 2007; Tansel and Bircan, 2005; Ünal et al., 2010).…”

Section: The Effect Of Private Tutoring On Students’ Performance In Amentioning

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How does private tutoring mediate the effects of socio-economic status on mathematics performance? Evidence from Turkey

Atalmis

Yılmaz

Saatcioglu

2016

Policy Futures in Education

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Private tutoring refers to additional instruction out of school. With its determinants and effects, private tutoring has received increasing attention from scholars over the past decades. Because of the increasing role of school and high-stakes exams, the demand for private tutoring has increased tremendously in Turkey. The purpose of this study is to examine whether private tutoring mediates the effects of socio-economic status (SES) on students’ mathematics performance in the country. This study also addresses how this dynamic varies across types of tutoring: one-on-one tutoring versus tutoring in groups. The findings show that private tutoring partially mediates the effect of SES on students’ mathematics performance, and that this dynamic varies across different private tutoring services.

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“…Further, a study by Aturupane et al [10], has concluded that PT has a significantly large impact on academic performance of students. Moreover, Thongphat [15], has found that PT has significantly positive impact on Mathematics and English language. Besides, he has concluded that family background factors and educational background factors have a significant positive impact on students' Mathematics and English language scores.…”

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confidence: 99%

Academic Performance of Students: the Effect of Class Room Level Factors and Private Tutoring

Damayanthi¹

2018

EDUCATION

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Increased participation in private tutoring intended towards the high academic performance has been perceived enormously worldwide. However, to date literature is indecisive about the effect of private tutoring on students' academic performance. This study directed to observe the impact of private tutoring on students' academic performance in Sri Lanka. Data was collected from a stratified systematic random sample of 600 children were in Year 7 -11 and their parents through a questionnaire survey. It was found that private tutoring has positive effect on students' academic performance while net impact of private tutoring on student's academic performance is reduced in magnitude when parental education, economic status and especially the effect self leaning hours is concerned. Hence, the study concludes that rather than focusing on private tutoring, efforts to improve self learning strategies that enhance socio-cultural connectedness and human focus can lead to achieve wider goals of education.

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The effect of private tutoring on performance in mathematics in Turkey: A comparison across occupational types

Cited by 9 publications

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The “secrets” of English private tutoring in China: Chinese students’ experiences of study abroad test preparation in cram schools

The “secrets” of English private tutoring in China: Chinese students’ experiences of study abroad test preparation in cram schools

How does private tutoring mediate the effects of socio-economic status on mathematics performance? Evidence from Turkey

Academic Performance of Students: the Effect of Class Room Level Factors and Private Tutoring

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