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Tutor Matching Service (TMS) was created to promote student success with the
core mission of increasing access to one-on-one education in higher education.
Since our founding in 2008, we have expanded our purpose to now be able to
curate the best technology options for learning centers, tutors, and students,
helping to enhance the tutoring experience, in-person and online. We are
established partners in the learning center community, partnering with over 200
colleges and universities, as well as being long-time members of the National
College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) and the College Reading and Learning
Association (CRLA). TMS’s Web-Based Tutor List CONNECTING STUDENTS TO TUTORS, OR
“THE BEGINNING” TMS was originally piloted and financially sponsored by a
handful of university tutoring centers (learning centers), career centers, and
student governments including IUPUI (an Indiana University campus), Caltech, and
NYU-Polytechnic (now NYU Tandon). At many colleges and universities across the
country there are gaps in the free tutoring services available to students. This
can be due to limited space or hours and tight budgets. Often there aren’t
tutors available for students in upper level courses in departments such as
physics, chemistry, engineering, finance, and foreign languages. Tutor Matching
Service helps solve these problems by providing a safe, simple environment for
connecting students in-person and online with private tutors across a wide
variety of subjects. Also, colleges and universities often get frequent phone
calls from parents of high school students looking for high quality, inexpensive
peer tutors for their children. Parents want to find tutors for a variety of
situations, from the student who is having difficulty passing algebra, to the AP
student who needs a tutor and role model. Local brick and mortar tutoring
companies charge $65-$95/hr, which is not affordable for the majority of
families. By using TMS, learning centers can support their local community by
allowing their certified tutors to tutor privately in a safe and secure way.
Tutor Essentials ENHANCING TUTOR’S SKILLS, OR “NEXT STEPS” After increasing
access to tutoring for students across the country, TMS recognized a need for a
simple yet effective tutor training program that could be provided to their
school partners. TMS partnered with Purdue University to develop Tutor
Essentials, which is being used by learning centers across the country to
enhance their tutor training program. It is a College Reading and Learning
Center endorsed, self-paced, and the only complete online tutor training course
that counts for 4 hours of CRLA Level 1 ITTPC Certification. GoBoard ONLINE
TUTORING FOR EVERYONE, OR “WHERE WE WENT NEXT” After many years of connecting
students and tutors for online tutoring sessions, TMS decided to develop their
own online platform that met the growing demand for an exceptional online
tutoring experience. GoBoard is a first-in-its-class online tutoring platform
that combines video conferencing, an interactive canvas, and educational tools
like a graphing calculator to create a highly engaging online tutoring session.
It even tracks the hours for reporting purposes and records all sessions in a
secure administrative panel. It has been thoroughly tested by over 60+ learning
centers and is for higher education learning centers to utilize in their day to
day operations. Study Edge WHEN STUDENTS NEED A LITTLE MORE HELP, OR “WHERE WE
ARE GOING” While there are hundreds of excellent tutors available on TMS,
students often need additional academic support to access on their own outside
of the classroom or tutoring session. To fill in this gap in support, Tutor
Matching Service is excited to introduce a new resource to learning centers-
Study Edge. Study Edge is the best option out there for 24/7 academic support in
historically challenging courses. Study Edge provides engaging, to-the-point
video content, practice problems, quizzes, and helpful PDF study guides for
college courses, all delivered through easy-to-use web and mobile apps. Study
Edge resources are highly effective at supporting students with often challenging
material. The content is aligned with the most commonly used textbooks,
including OpenStax. Study Edge can be used by learning centers as an extra
resource for their tutors, in conjunction with, or as a digital substitute, for
Supplemental Instruction (SI), or just as an additional support for their
students. Study Edge excels in understanding the differences in how professors
teach the same course, and customizes their video library for each university
partner.
