Education Endowment Foundation:MyTutor Schools Programme

MyTutor Schools Programme

Implementation costThe cost estimates in the Toolkits are based on the average cost of delivering the intervention. 
Evidence strengthThis rating provides an overall estimate of the robustness of the evidence, to help support professional decision-making in schools.Not given for this trial
Impact (months)The impact measure shows the number of additional months of progress made, on average, by children and young people who received the intervention, compared to similar children and young people who did not.
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Project info

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MyTutor offers online, one-to-one tuition from undergraduate students.
Cancelled

The project

MyTutor is a one-to-one, online tutoring platform which uses undergraduate students as tutors. Schools will be asked to identify 20 – 25 pupils who are engaged with school but are underperforming in maths.

MyTutor tutors are undergraduate students from the top 40 UK universities. During sessions, tutors and pupils communicate in real-time through the interactive Online Lesson Space, using live video, microphone and a shared whiteboard. Lessons are also recorded to allow pupils to revisit them. The tuition sessions are typically held in a school IT room as an after-school club, with a member of staff present to monitor them.

A 15-minute, online onboarding session is required for teachers, where MyTutor runs through programme logistics and demos the MyTutor dashboards, which provide information around attendance, weekly progress reports and resources. Lessons require a one hour per week commitment from each pupil for the duration of the two-term programme. Ahead of a programme launch, MyTutor ask schools to provide their pupils’ most recent assessment data, and then tutors create a bespoke programme plan, focusing on core learning gaps.

Recruitment for this project was halted in March 2020 as a result of partial COVID-19 school closures. In summer 2020, the EEF decided to discontinue this project. The planned trial was viewed as no longer viable owing to the rapidly changing context of tutoring during the pandemic, as well as developments such as the National Tuition Programme.