One On One Tutoring
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Calacanis: 1-on-1 tutoring improves student performance by two standard deviations
“Basically we've known since the eighties that if you are one-on-one tutored, you are two standard deviation betters than students that are educated in a classroom.”
Khan: One-on-one tutoring can dramatically accelerate almost all students
“If you do have one-on-one tutoring and that tutor is able to identify what your gaps are, and fill in those gaps, especially in subjects like mathematics, that most kids can actually, probably all kids could be accelerated dramatically”
Collison: Schools structurally cannot provide 1-on-1 mastery learning
“You get way better outcomes with one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery learning, where you only progress through topics once the student has mastered the prior topic, and you kind of move your way sequentially through things. And schools almost definitionally…”
Hyatt: One-on-one tutoring is an inefficient service model professionals want to escape
“You are still A one-on-one where the other person has to consume, ah, their person hours times rate, which is back to a service model, which is an inefficient model that lawyers and accountants and everybody else are desperate to get out of.”
Andreessen: One-on-one tutoring reliably yields a two-sigma boost in student outcomes
“There is one exception. There is one educational intervention technique that reliably it generates better outcomes. And in fact, it generates what are called two sigma better outcomes. So two standard deviations. So it's an intervention that routinely takes ki…”
Horowitz: One-on-one tutoring is the only consistently proven intervention for autistic students
“This is also true with autistic kids. They've done similar research. And the one thing that works is one-on-one tutoring. Or the one thing that's proven of all the interventions consistently, there is a professor with UCLA, Ivar Lovas, who kind of proved that …”