ERIC Digest, Number 79. Tutoring can adapt instruction to the learner's pace, learning style, and level of understanding. Feedback and correction are immediate. Basic misunderstandings can be quickly identified and corrected, practice provided, and more difficult material introduced as soon as the student is ready. Tutoring has emotional as well as cognitive benefits.
Students can achieve at their own pace without being compared with faster learners.
The extra attention and emotional support may help fill important psychological needs for children from troubled or single-parent families. Research has demonstrated that with proper training, students can successfully tutor other students. However, sometimes the term peer tutoring is used to include both types. Successful programs take many forms. Three programs serve to illustrate the wide range of configurations possible.