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Shadow Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics: an Exploratory Study
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Purpose This study aims to explore the practice of shadow
education (private tutoring) in Mathematics among first
year
university students and to examine how this mode of
learning during high school years impact students
performance in freshman mathematics course.
Methodology Taking a case study of Business Mathematics
course at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in
United Arab Emirates (UAE), the author undertook a
quantitative analysis of students final grades in the
course
categorized by students responses to some private tutoring
related questionnaire items.
Findings Students who have received private tutoring in
Mathematics in the form of individualized instruction for
at
least one year in high school are more likely to request
tutoring in the subject during freshman year at the
university.
As for performance, students who purchased private
tutoring in order to improve their performance in the
course
consistently underperformed their peers irrespective of
whether they had tutoring experience in Mathematics in
high
school or not. They showed significantly higher failing
rate
in the course than their peers.
Research limitations The study did not include other
tutoring unrelated factors that could affect students
performance in the course such as students motivation,
household and/or school characteristics.
Implications for teaching Given the observed negative
consequences of private tutoring on students learning,
educators of higher education where tutoring practices may
exist should invest time in discouraging these practices
and
educating their students of the negative effects tutoring
can
have. They should develop teaching strategies that promote
independent learning, give more support to challenged
students in Mathematics and encourage peer tutoring and
group studying.
Social Implications Given the cultural context of UAE
society, parents are envisaged to take lead and often
dictate
their children life choices. In their conviction of good
parenting, they drive their children into tutoring hoping
for
them to achieve competitive academic performance. Parents
should become aware of the negative consequences that
tutoring can have on their children education and
personality.
Originality There is little research on the long term
impact
of private tutoring. This paper tries to shed some light
on this
impact by examining how private tutoring in high school
could affect student s learning and performance in
freshman
Mathematics course.
Date Published: 2014-02-10 08:13:31
Identifier: IJMEF008
Item Size: 5812783
Language: English
Media Type: texts
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Tutoring; Boxplot; Shadow Education; UAE
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