Peer tutoring

Overview

Influence: Peer tutoring
Domain: Student Learning Strategies
Sub-Domain: Student perspectives in learning
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
Influence Definition: Peer tutoring is a teaching strategy that uses students as tutors. The student pairs might work on academic, social, behavioral, functional, or even social skills. There are many different ways to pair students, such as by ability level, skills mastered, or age. Many studies look at the effects on both the tutor and tutee.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 18
Number of studies: 921
Number of students: 17,723
Number of effects: 1,655
Weighted mean effect size: 0.66
Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Counselor Education and Supervision	Phillips	USA	Counselor training via computer.	1983	Tutorial training of conservation	302	0	302	0.98
School Psychology Review	Mathes & Fuchs	USA	The efficacy of peer tutoring in reading for students with mild disabilities: A best-evidence synthesis.	1994	Peer tutoring in reading	11	0	74	0.36
Book	Elbaum, Vaughn, Hughes, Moody, & Schumm	USA	How reading outcomes of students with disabilities are related to instructional grouping formats: A meta-analytic review	2000	Peer tutoring in reading	32	1,248	216	0.41
Journal of Educational Psychology	Elbaum, Vaughn, Hughes & Moody	USA	How effective are one-to-one tutoring programs in reading for elementary students at risk for reading failure? A meta-analysis of the intervention research.	2000	One-one tutoring programs in reading	29	325	216	0.67
School Psychology Review	Bowman-Perrott, Davis, Vannest, Williams, Greenword, & Parker	USA	Academic benefits of peer tutoring: A meta-analytic review of single-case research	2013	Peer tutoring	26	938	195	1.17
Journal of Educational Psychology	Rohrbeck, Ginsburg-Block, Fantuzzo, & Miller	USA	Peer-assisted learning interventions with elementary school students: A meta-analytic review	2003	Peer assisted learning in elementary students	90	0	90	0.59
Journal of Educational Psychology	Ginsburg-Block, Rohrbeck & Fantuzzo	USA	A meta-analytic review of social, self-concept, and behavioral outcomes of peer-assisted learning	2006	Peer-assisted learning	28	0	26	0.35
International Journal of Educational Research	Shenderovich, Thurston, & Miller	UK	Cross-age tutoring in kindergarten and elementary school settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	2016	Cross age tutoring	15	0	15	0.19
Review of Educational Research	Dietrichson, Bog, Filges, & Jorgensen	Denmark	Dietrichson, J., Bøg, M., Filges, T., & Klint Jørgensen, A. M. (2017). Academic interventions for elementary and middle school students with low socioeconomic status: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	2017	Tutoring	36	0	36	0.36
Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education	Alegre-Ansuategui, Moliner, Lorenzo, & Maroto	Spain	Peer tutoring and academic achievement in mathematics: a meta-analysis.	2018	Peer tutoring	50	7,043	50	0.33
International Journal of Educational Research	Zeneli, Thurston, & Roseth	UK	The influence of experimental design on the magnitude of the effect size-peer tutoring for elementary, middle and high school settings: A meta-analysis	2016	Peer tutoring	49	0	182	0.72
Journal of Educational Psychology	Leung	Hong Kong	Preliminary empirical model of crucial determinants of best practice for peer tutoring on academic achievement.	2015	Peer tutoring	72	6,612	72	0.39
Dissertation	Burton	USA	Cross-Age Peer Mentoring: A Meta-Analysis	2020	Cross-age peer mentors	6	685	6	0.45
Journal of Peer Learning	Zha, Estes, & Xu	USA	A Meta-Analysis on the Effect of Duration, Task, and Training in Peer-Led Learning.	2019	Peer led learning	28	0	28	0.36
Journal of Korean Mathematics Education	Cho, Choi, & Kim	Korea	Peer teaching through meta-analysis: Effect on academic achievement in mathematics and the area of definition.	2021	Peer teaching	61	0	61	0.52
Medical teacher	Rees, Quinn, Davies, & Fotheringham	UK	How does peer teaching compare to faculty teaching? A systematic review and meta-analysis.	2016	Peer vs faculty teaching	10	0	10	0.07
Pedagogies: An International Journal	Oz	Turkey	Effects of peer instruction on academic achievement: a meta-analysis.	2023	Peer instruction	43	0	43	0.92
Nurse Education Today	Zhang, Liao, Goh, Wu, & Yoong	Singapore	Effectiveness of peer teaching in health professions education: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	2022	Peer teaching on nurses	33	872	33	0.10
TOTAL/AVERAGE						921	17,723	1,655	0.50