Hi Omega
Were glad you find the tutorials useful. Certainly the feedback we get seems to suggest youre not the only one getting a lot of use out of them.
Yes, we do try to look at the pass rates of students attending tutorials versus the national average, although its not that easy and for any one subject/sitting/tutorial, its very volatile. However, our investigations suggest that if the average pass rate is around 46%, then that of tutorial students is around 54% (these particular figures were for April 2004, but that level of difference has been reasonably consistent).
Perhaps more interestingly, nearly three-quarters of students who take out a tutorial, as well as submit their X Assignments and Mock Exam for marking, go on to pass the exam! Although only a relatively small subset of students use all of these services.
As you say, however, there are loads of caveats, for example:
1) we dont know who sits the exams, and we have to manually match pass lists to tutorial attendance lists
2) the selection effect the sort of student who uses all of our services is probably the student most likely to pass (although perhaps we should argue that those finding the exams tricky are more likely to ask for the extra help!)
Hope this helps you. (And if our tutorial and marking sales double next session then well put the commission cheque in the post.)
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Last edited: Feb 27, 2006
