Parent Survey of Tutoring

Background Information

This researcher has been a tutor at Education Guidance Services (EGS), a private tutoring facility in the west-central Georgia region, for approximately two years. The writer’s experiences led him to want to study the benefits of tutoring on the school population that is served there.  Services are paid for by parents in most cases. A few students have worked for part of their tuition. Services for a sizeable number of students are paid for through No Child Left Behind funds and are called "Supplemental Educational Services." These students typically come from Title I schools .

Purpose and Rationale

The purpose of this study is to determine the benefits of tutoring for students at a tutoring facility who are under the age of 18 and have parents who will fill out the survey form.  This researcher’s experiences, as well as the review of the literature which is below in this paper, have shown that tutoring is a growing field which is producing benefits not only for many students, but for the entire educational process.

Research Question/Hypothesis

Question: What are the precise benefits of tutoring for students as perceived by parents taking their children to EGS?
Hypothesis: The survey will show a high magnitude of agreement by parents that there are several types of benefits of tutoring for all individuals involved in the tutoring process.

The Survey Instrument 

The survey is designed with 25 questions on a Likert scale of 1 to 5: Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Agree, and Strongly Agree.
Parents are asked to provide their feedback by marking one of the 5 answer choices for each question. They are also given space to write open-ended comments.

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