Acceptance of the technical skills training tutor model among the tutees themselves was evaluated by a web-based survey, and self-confidence ratings of tutees were employed as a surrogate parameter of the model's effectiveness.
Kazakoff is the cofounder of Testive, an education technology company that offers technology-supported private tutoring at lower costs than traditionally possible in private tutoring models.
Proven tutoring models of all types should be a standard offering for every school.
With the slightest encouragement, proven tutoring models could be expanded to serve many more schools and students, at modest cost.
In addition to the four "evidence-proven whole-school reform" models identified recently, SIG schools might be funded to implement a mix of reading approaches, math approaches, tutoring models, and social-emotional approaches, for example, each of which has convincing evidence of effectiveness.
This programme is based on the best available scientific evidence, and it counteracts the problem of the traditional surgical apprentice-tutor model.
Today it is generally accepted that the traditional apprentice-tutor model is no longer valid for training all skills necessary for laparoscopic surgery [1].
Although the apprentice-tutor model has long been a successful approach for training of surgeons, recently, clinicians have recognised that endoscopic surgery requires an important training phase outside the operating theatre.
In spite of the controversies and differences, most specialists in surgical education agree that the traditional apprentice-tutor model is no longer useful for training all skills necessary for laparoscopic surgery.
Although the apprentice-tutor model has long been a successful approach for training of surgeons, recently, clinicians have concluded that endoscopic surgery requires an important training phase outside the operating theatre.
