Private supplementary tutoring: comparative perspectives on patterns and implications

By M. Bray. 2006

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Demography

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Ju-ho Lee
2. Sunw Kim
3. E. Smyth
4. Miyoung Hong
5. S. Jayachandran
6. Nam-Hwa Kang
7. Iveta Silova

In Demography

1. Ju-ho Lee
2. Sunw Kim
3. E. Smyth
4. Miyoung Hong
5. S. Jayachandran
6. Nam-Hwa Kang
7. Heesook Lee
8. Iveta Silova

Citations in the corpus

• Private Tutoring and Demand for Education in South Korea (2010, background): “Bray (1999, 2006) reports that staggering percentages of students receive private tutoring around the world.”
• Private tutoring in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: policy choices and implications (2010, background): “Furthermore, qualitative data reveals that tutoring may disrupt the curriculum in public schools (Silova, Budiene, and Bray 2006; Silova 2009).”
• Incentives to teach badly: After-school tutoring in developing countries (2014, background): “In Bangladesh, over 40% of primary school students attend tutoring sessions; in Kenya, the figure is 65% (Bray, 2005).”
• Achieving Excellence in Teacher Workforce and Equity in Learning Opportunities in South Korea (2008, background): “The effect of private instruction on individual students’ achievement is not conclusive (Bray, 2006), and research indicates that the level of participation in private instruction is not related to nations’ achievement in mathematics (Baker, Akiba, LeTendre, & Wiseman, 2001).”
• Buying your way into college? Private tuition and the transition to higher education in Ireland (2009, background): “A number of these studies have shown, as might be expected, higher participation by more advantaged (higher income, higher social class and more highly educated) groups in such tuition (see, for example, Ireson & Rushforth, 2005, on England; Tansel & Bircan, 2005, on Turkey; Psacharopoulos & Papakon”
• Does private tutoring increase students’ academic performance? Evidence from Turkey (2014, unknown): “Some of this evidence has been reviewed by Mark Bray (2006, 2011).”
• The history of policy responses to shadow education in South Korea: implications for the next cycle of policy responses (2010, background): “become an increasingly worldwide phenomenon—from East Asia to Africa to Europe to North America ( Bray 1999, 2006; Kwok 2004; Silova et al. 2006; Lee et al. 2009), the causes of its expansion have been studied, especially since the 1990s (e.g., Bray 1999; Baker et al. 2001; Bray and Kwok 2003).”