Questions tagged [tutoring]
Questions relating to academic tutoring or teaching.
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As a private tutor, is it ethical to recommend the student take more classes?
I'm tutoring a student. Unfortunately he's not very good; for example, he has trouble with basic manipulations that one would expect a student of his level to have mastered. He scored 15% in a recent ...
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Is it common for tutors to be concerned they might teach themselves out of a job? [closed]
I'm tutoring a student. They originally hired me after failing an exam, and now, after six months, they nearly scored an A in the finals (they should have gotten the 'A' too, but the lecturer set a ...
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How to Get More Tutoring Clients & Grow? [closed]
I'm a student, and I've been tutoring in Computer Science for roughly a year. I've been studying computer science and doing projects for fun for about 3 years. For most of my time tutoring, I've made ...
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Tutoring Unfamiliar Material
Context: I've been tutoring in software development for the better part of this year. I've been a hobbyist and student software engineer for the last 3 years and I have decent experience in a few ...
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Student requests my presence while doing evaluation without grades
As a private tutor, a student has requested my presence during an evaluation that does not involve assigning grades. I'm unsure about the ethical implications of this. Could the community provide ...
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Tutoring programs who accept teenagers [closed]
I am a 14-year-old college freshman at California State University Los Angeles. I want to get work experience so that my resume would look nice when I apply for jobs, and I think I would be a big shot ...
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Are there universities with permanent long-term tutor positions?
In the two universities I studied at, as well as in the university I am currently teaching at, the tutors (teaching assistants) are usually master students. This means that they work for two years, ...
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Is it normal for students to ask for summary statistics of exam grades?
I'm a tutor for a university course that has just had a midterm exam marked and returned to the students. One of the students emailed me asking for summary statistics of the midterm exam: the maximum ...
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Do instructors make all the necessary (bulk amount of) images on their own for tutorial purposes?
I am an instructor for a machine learning course and I need to make a presentation on all the recent architectures or models. I have to include a lot of images from several research papers and need to ...
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How to avoid aiding academic misconduct when tutoring online
I have started teaching online recently. Sometimes I am asked not only to teach, but also to actively help in a particular project. If it was a paper, I would ask be included in the list of authors, ...
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Is it considered academic misconduct as a tutor to help your student with homework that is for marks?
I am a private tutor and some of my students are in university with homework assignments that count for marks. Is it academic misconduct to help them with homework that they will be submitting even if ...
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Should I mention that I am a tutor on Chegg on my CV?
I have recently been selected as a tutor on Chegg for the subject of advanced physics and have recently also been applying to various internship opportunities as I am in my final year of undergrad. I ...
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Is there a common understanding or philosophical foundation of academic integrity?
In another contemporaneous post, I asked about whether private tutors ought to establish communication with the course heads of their students, and received several thoughtful responses. Based on ...
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When should private tutors communicate with course professors?
Students often seek help from a variety of sources, including private tutors, who can be found either locally or remotely on websites such as Wyzant, Chegg, Tutor.com, Varsity Tutors, etc.
As a ...
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Is ethical to rewrite tutor work and submit it?
I hired a tutor to help me with a programming task (he did the whole assignment for me) a few days ago, but instead of submitting his own work to my professor, I changed the code from him into mine (I ...
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