Examining the Effectiveness of a Peer Tutoring Approach: Teen Tutors for Reading

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Abstract

Following a more than two-year disruption to learning caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the negative impacts on younger students’ achievement are now emerging. More disturbing is the fact that children who were already struggling before the pandemic were disproportionately affected by the disruptions to learning. One evidence-based approach to provide students with additional instruction is in the form of peer tutoring. The purpose of this study is to describe the impacts of a peer tutoring literacy intervention that was developed for fourth graders and offered by high school students, and implemented for the first time in the Spring of 2022 just as schooling was beginning to return to normal.

Authors

• Emily M. Rodgers, The Ohio State University

• Jerome V. D'Agostino, The Ohio State University

• Robert H. Kelly, READ USA INC