Evaluation of the Centralized, Structured, After-School Tutorial

This paper reports the results of an attempt to provide some empirical light on the efficacy of the group, after-school tutorial in basic reading and mathematics skills for inner city elementary school students. Students enrolled in KXIRA, a tutorial program in a major Southern city, are compared with non-KXTRA students by means of a matched pairs design. Success of CXTRA is measured in terms of KXTRA students' improvement over time in the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills reading and mathematics scores compared to the improvement among their matched pair counterparts. In the final analysis, KXTR A achieves success in its mathematics tutorials but not in its reading program. Implications of the findings for both l\XTR A and tutorial programs in general are reviewed.