Intervention(s)
PLUS Tutoring is a math tutoring program that operates within school hours during regular math classes and is designed to provide personalized tutoring for all students in a school. Using data from schools’ existing math practice software (Mathia, iReady, IXL, etc.), the PLUS Tutoring software helps allocate appropriate levels of tutoring to different students. Students in PLUS will receive one of three forms of PLUS tutoring: AI/ed tech tutor added (no human tutoring), on-demand student-initiated tutoring, or data-driven tutor-initiated tutoring. All students in the study will, one day per week during math class, use a device (typically a laptop) with educational technology systems, and open a video-conferencing platform (such as Zoom or Pencil Spaces). Treatment students will receive data-driven tutor-initiated tutoring, with tutors assigned to 2-6 students based on student needs and tutoring skills. Tutors will lead sessions between 2 and 20 minutes to build relationships, identify and address motivational challenges and help get students back on track to making progress. Tutors use a dashboard (PLUS Toolkit) to track student math achievement, practice effort, and prior progress. Comparison group students will have access to on-demand student-initiatives tutoring, with 1 tutor available to serve 10-15 students. During math classes, students may use video-conferencing platforms to request help from a remote tutor. These remote tutoring sessions are also predicted to last roughly 2-20 minutes.