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From Pilot to Policy: Experimental Evidence from Scaling Online Tutoring

María Calle, Lucas Gortazar, Maria Hernandez-de-Benito, Claudia Hupkau, Teresa Molina-Millán, Antonio Roldán-Monés. June 2026

Topics: Out-of-School and Alternative Education

Tags: Poverty, Returns to education and skills, Tutoring

We study a randomized controlled trial of an online mathematics tutoring program scaled from a successful pilot and implemented entirely by regional education authorities in Spain, using interim public-school teachers rather than specially recruited tutors. Assignment to tutoring increased end… more →
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Institutions: Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones, Esade, World Bank, CUNEF Universidad, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Alicante, IE University
Online tutoring works: Experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children

Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau, Antonio Roldan. March 2023

Topics: Student Learning

Tags: Tutoring, Mathematics education, Covid-19 recovery

We provide evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a novel, 100-percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods. The intensive, eight-week-long program was delivered by qualified math teachers in… more →
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Institutions: Esade, CUNEF Universidad