High Dose Tutoring
Your Partner in Success
Air Tutors partnered with Mathematica, a public policy research firm, to evaluate Air Tutors’ high dosage tutoring program in the 2020-2021 school year with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Interim results suggest that students who participated in Air Tutors achieved significantly higher growth on i-Ready than the national average. Students who participated in at least 15 sessions grew an average of 6.7 percentile points on i-Ready from the winter to spring i-Ready administrations relative to the national average
Student population: 162, 6th and 8th-grade students
- Student to tutor ratio: 1:1 to 4:1
- Program duration: 14-16 weeks
- Session frequency: 4-5 days per week
Achievement outcomes on i-Ready (relative to the national average)
- Students who attended at least 15 sessions improved by an average of 6.7 percentile points (0.22 standard deviations)
- Female students improved by an average of 9.0 percentile points (0.31 standard deviations)
- The average student improved their i-Ready score from the 37th percentile to the 43rd percentile from winter to spring