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Virtual Classrooms has been offering on-line tutoring service to many high schools,
colleges and universities (mostly located in California and partly in North Dakota) since
2000. Our tutors have been providing on-line tutoring sessions in math and science for both
K-12 and college students. Most of the students have greatly appreciated our program and
found it helpful. We asked the students who have participated in on-line tutoring sessions
to write us a memo evaluating the service. We are listing below the testimonials that we
received from the students which have participated in on-line tutoring sessions with our
tutors during the past few years. The students were quite positive about the program, as you can
see by reading the memos below.
Math
College of
Marin
These are some feedback memos submitted by students in the on-line Introduction to
Probability and Statistics class taught by Ira Lansing at College of Marin. The students
who wrote these memos all participated in the study group and tutoring sessions conducted
by Virtual Classrooms' tutor, Helen Mesheryakova. This program was supported by the Bay Area
Region of the California Virtual Campus.
Prof. Lansing, Probability and Statistics class instructor: "Establishing a sense of classroom and community in an Internet course is very difficult. The services
provided by Ray Kronquist and his tutors goes a long way to creating and maintaining the feeling of belong
to a class."
Fall semester 2001:
Munther
H.: "My tutor Helen was fantastic and I really
appreciate all her work and everything that she
has done for me."
Aldren
B.: "About Helen: She is great!"
Steven
L.: "For me, the tutoring was mostly a very positive
experience."
Spring semester 2002:
Micheline
M.: "Helen was outstanding in every way I can
think of!"
Aileen
P.: "The tutoring sessions were very helpful."
Fall semester 2002:
Todd A.: "I looked
forward to our meetings as an opportunity to really grasp the material."
Ingrid
P.: "The tutoring sessions helped me open up, focus on keeping up with my homework, and
the obvious benefit of being to ask a human being a question "live"."
Matthias
Z.: "Helen was very helpful and unlike many tutors made sure that every single step
was clear to all the participants of the tutoring session."
Spring semester 2003:
Navid Z.:
"...it is the most practical type of tutoring I've had!"
Ned D.:
"Since this was an online class it was great to have a place to get questions
answered in detail while doing the problems."
Riverside
Community College
These are some feedback memos submitted by students in the on-line College Algebra
(Math 11) class and Intermediate Algebra (Math 35) class taught by Glenn Hunt at
Riverside College. The students who wrote these memos all participated in the study group
and tutoring sessions conducted by Virtual Classrooms' tutors, Nina Rinskaya and Oleg
Ponomarev. This program was supported by the Los Angeles Region of the California Virtual
Campus.
Spring semester 2002:
Raushanah
B.: "Nina has been very helpful during these sessions..."
Christine
P.: "Nina has been a great help to me and I'm
sure she has helped other students just as much,
and maybe even more."
Lisa
R.: "Nina has a great understanding for math and
in return she helped me understand problems that
were confusing and difficult to work out."
Tiffany
M.: "...at the end of every session, I feel like
I have a total grasp on what I was completely
lost on before all of Nina's help."
Summer
P.: "I throughly enjoy this program and would
gladly recommend anyone to use it."
Erin
M.: "I found the sessions very helpful."
Cynthia
G.: "It has helped me greatly."
Stacie
C.: "I just wanted to let you know that online
tutoring is very helpful and I like it a lot."
Francisco
C.: "The online tutorial sessions have allowed
me to get a better explanation of the material
I have been reviewing with help from classmates
and my tutor Nina."
Carrie
W.: "Oleg has been a help for sure."
Selina
Y.: "The sessions went fine..."
Kristi
M.: "Overall, I found the meetings very informative
and fun to attend."
These are some feedback memos submitted by students in the on-line College Algebra
class taught by Glenn Hunt at Riverside College. The students who wrote these memos
all participated in the study group and tutoring sessions conducted by Virtual
Classrooms' tutor Nina Rinskaya. This program was supported by a Title
Three Grant at Riverside College.
Fall semester 2002:
Selina Y.: "With the on-line tutoring,
we got to interact with a highly educated math tutor, who could figure out just about
anything, and also interact with other students."
Terrance S.: "Online tutoring is like
having your own personal teacher whenever you need one."
Amy B.: "Nina’s tutoring sessions
became the warm safe place to go with question in a class that was otherwise impersonal
and difficult for me."
Koen W.: "It was an incredible and
fun experience for me and I recommend her to anyone taking any Algebra class."
These are some feedback memos submitted by students in the on-line College Algebra
class taught by Glenn Hunt at Riverside College. The students who wrote these memos
all participated in the study group and tutoring sessions conducted by Virtual
Classrooms' tutors, Nina Rinskaya and Helen Mesheryakova. This program was
supported by a Title Three Grant at Riverside College.
Spring semester 2003:
Jeni B.: "Nina herself was wonderful,
a great teacher, and incredibly patient when I got frustrated."
Sheri S.: "It was great to have Nina
walk me through each problem that I asked for or she would sign some problems to us."
Amanda V.: "It was nice to have someone
who understands math willing to show me step-by-step how to understand math myself..."
Ruth D.: "It helped me to score better
on all of my tests."
Jenny C.: "Since the class was on-line
having an actual live person teaching you was extremely helpful."
Jamie B.: "Thanks to the tutoring from
Helen and Nina..."
MaryLouise B.: "I just wanted to say that
I feel I really benefited from this program."
Farouk C.: "I cannot express how much
these sessions helped me with my Math class. I recommend this program to anyone taking
Math classes..."
DeAnza
College
These are some feedback memos submitted by students in the on-line Elementary
Statistics (Math 10) class taught by Susan Dean at DeAnza College. The students who
wrote these memos all participated in the study group and tutoring sessions conducted
by Virtual Classrooms' tutors, Helen Mesheryakova, Alexander Bystrov and Roman Koryakin.
This program was supported by the California Virtual Campus.
Spring quarter 2002:
Rosalie
F.: "I really enjoyed the online tutoring sessions."
Jennifer
N.: "I think that online tutoring is a great new
way to work with other students outside of the
classroom."
LeAnn
R.: "I think the tutoring sessions were VERY helpful!"
Jenny
L.: "Online tutoring is very helpful and is the
best way to get helps with problems."
Minh
N.: "I think the tutors were helpful and prepared."
Patricia
D.: "I enjoyed working with the tutor and the
other students..."
Adrian
T.: "You were really thorough and really were
master of the subject."
Maria
V.: "Overall, I enjoyed the class and I think
I learned more than I thought I would."
Jill
H: "I felt the tutoring did benefit my understanding
of the class in that my tutor was always helpful
and would spend as much time as possible to make
sure I understood the concepts."
Virginia
E.: "...the tutoring can be helpful at times..."
Fall quarter 2002:
Bill S.: "It has been great using the Internet
and the Centra software to gather more information on my class."
Kevin S.: "I only started the tutor sessions
after my second exam, and must say, I was much more confident when taking the third exam."
Lauren H.: "I don't like to ask a lot of questions
in class but the on-line format let me ask as many questions as I wanted to."
Peggy P.: "The on-line tutoring is very very
helpful and I recommended other distance learning students to try it."
These are some feedback memos submitted by Math 10 (Elementary Statistics) students
from classes taught by Susan Dean, Maurice Geraghty, Yatman Au Young, Charles Klein,
Frank Soler, Kathy Plum, Bijan Sadeghi, Charles De Vogelaere at the De Anza College.
The students who wrote these memos all participated in the study group and tutoring
sessions conducted by Virtual Classrooms' tutors, Helen Mesheryakova and Alexander Bystrov.
This program was supported by the California Virtual Campus.
Winter quarter 2003:
Arun S.: "I would definitely recommend Alex
and Helen to any statistic student needing tutoring."
Jila M.: "I don't know what I'm going to do,
you both have been extremely great help! I actually pass my test."
Azadeh T.: "The software was simply and your
staff gave excellent instructions and support, I really enjoyed the class and found it quite
useful."
Evi G.: "I don't know what else to say except
that this has been helpful for my statistics, as much help as we can get through the internet."
Sorphea H.: "This is a great idea about online
tutoring and I'm really enjoying it because I also don't have to stay at school to get a tutoring.
I can just have it home."
These are some feedback memos submitted by students in the
C programming course class taught by Delia Garbacea at the De Anza College.
The students who wrote these memos all participated in the study group and tutoring
sessions conducted by Virtual Classrooms' tutor Alexander Shapeyev.
This program was supported by the California Virtual Campus.
Winter quarter 2003:
Ashley N.: "I have learned a lot from the meeting
discussions, and it helped me to understand some information which I had been
lost or never known."
Aisha M.: "So it was very simple, good and helpful
and I will recommend it to everyone."
Johnny N.: "My questions
were all answered in each session I attended and it was great help towards
my programming studies, homework, and labs."
Nikhil N.: "I am sorry to hear that funding
for the online tutoring has stopped, as I was helped a great deal by it."
San Jose City College
These are some feedback memos submitted by students in the Engineering
Physics (Physics 4A) course taught by Mark Bunge at San Jose City College.
This program was supported by the California Virtual Campus. The students
who wrote these memos all participated in the study group and tutoring
sessions conducted by Virtual Classrooms' tutors Pavel Naumenko and
Alexander Sandanov.
Here are Dr. Bunge's comments:
"All the quotes below were from students in an introductory physics course at
San Jose City College They were all English as a second language students and
I didn't correct their English. The role of the tutor was to guide the
students in working together to construct their solutions to assigned homework
problems."
And here are some of the students' comments:
Fall semester 2002:
Falguni N.: "The time I spent in the tutoring
sessions was definitely worth it..."
Spring semester 2003:
Tu N.: "I definitely would choose to work in
a group with the tutor and others..."
Thao N.: "The tutor didn’t work the problems
for me, but he only helped other students and me to construct the solutions by giving helpful
guidance when needed..."
Thai H.: "I think this program went well for me
because we can do it at night time, and we don’t have to meet outside."
Khoi L.: "I think the time I had spend with tutor
might worthwhile, helped me a lots."
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