Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides giving some hours a day to working with students who need help, they must also continue with their graduate work since a good many of them are working for Doctors' degrees. Often it is difficult to get even one competent tutor for certain advanced courses...
Even though a tutor is a brilliant man in his field, he may not know how to make others understand property the subject under consideration, especially if he has had no experience teaching. For this reason, it has been suggested that all men registered as tutors with the Bureau be required to study for a short while at the School of Education in order to familiarize themselves with teaching problems...
...Bureau of Supervisors already has several men who received very high ratings in the poll, Duhig, long experienced in History I, and Perry, supervisor in English, both were regarded as excellent. Mrs. Bradley, tutor in Economics, was mentioned by many as very good. Several others merited favorable comments. But in other cases, reports were rather unsatisfactory...
...cases, the student's tutor had checked up to see whether he had made an attempt to do the work in the course before he asked for aid, and in 24 cases the tutor has not checked up. On many sheets there was no answer to this question...
Apparently the weakest point of the Bureau is the inferior quality of some of their instructors. Their combined ability to help the student in his methods of organizing and studying his material is only "fair." Other questions, such as ability of the tutor to clarify the undergraduate's understanding of the work, and his knowledge of the arrangement of the course, received more favorable answers...