Ending social promotion is a laudable goal, too, in his judgment, but unless schools set up strong tutoring programs and summer sessions to help students catch up -- as officials recently failed to here, he has complained -- proclaiming an end to social promotion will end up a mere publicity stunt.
Hopefully you can have a strong relationship with your tutor to increase your confidence around him/her.
The internal consistency of the scales was high in all cases, the Cronbach alpha coefficients being 0.91 for May 2008 (17 items), 0.87 for January 2009 (14 items), and 0.90 for May 2009 (20 items), indicating that there was a strong tendency for the tutors to give similar ratings to individual students for all items in the scales.
She said her organization acknowledges that stronger oversight of tutoring services is needed.
Chrysander's early career was as a private tutor, but his strong interest in music led, briefly, to composition and then to music criticism and scholarship.
Jackson credited strong safety John Lynch for his tutoring and linebacker Derrick Brooks for his inspiration.
Make sure you know that you have studied the right facts by consulting your tutors or academically strong friends.
These arguments have strong implications for the design of tutor-training programmes [ 41]: We consider role modelling in PBL tutor-training programmes to be essential for the development of a sustainable change in the skills and attitudes of novices.
In New York, there is a strong preference for one-on-one tutoring, while clients in Texas are open to small group sessions.
We focused mainly on mathematics majors and found unexpectedly that there is no difference in grades for mathematics majors who visited and did not visit the tutoring centre, i.e., there is no strong correlation between the number of hours spent in the tutoring centre and grades in the courses tutored in.
For medicine, the tutors look for both a strong aptitude for science and the beginnings of a bedside manner.
