Researches On The Current Situation And Influential Factors Of Private Tutoring Of Urban Senior High School Students

It is quite common that urban senior high school students take private tutoring in China. Such an educational form exits by attaching itself to the mainstream education,which is called as the “shadow” of mainstream education. Currently, the academic circle in our country lacks specific researches on such an educational phenomenon,lacks the understandings about the scale, strength, expenditure and influence of educational tutoring, and also lacks explorations about the factors affecting the educational tutoring. Based on the above reasons, by statistical analysis on the data drawn from questionnaires of 6 senior high schools sampled from three regions in Jiangxi, it gets the following conclusions:From the current status of private tutoring, there are more than 40% senior high school students in Jiangxi who take part in the private tutoring after class. They mostly take extra lessons of maths, English and physics; the average tutoring intensity of senior high school students in Jiangxi is 4.17 hours per week. No matter in the aspect of tutoring time or the number of tutoring disciplines, those of students in key senior high schools are all larger than those of students in normal senior high schools.The average expenditure of private tutoring is about 1000 yuan/month. Although the tutoring intensity in Senior Grade Three is not the highest, the expenditure is just the largest. Most senior high school students choose to take private tutoring at home of their own teachers. Students in provincial capitals mostly choose to take private tutoring in tutoring organizations. As the reasons why senior high school students take part in the private tutoring, it is mainly because of improving the competitiveness in exams. Most participants’ appraisals of private tutoring are positive. Most students consider that it is beneficial for their own achievements by taking private tutoring.From the influential factors of private tutoring, ten elements have dominantly positive influences on the probability to take part in the private tutoring, respectivelyare “type of city”, “type of school”, “educational background of father”, “educational background of mother”, “income level of family”, “parents’ expectations of the academic performance”, “own expectations of the academic performance”, “effective guidance of parents”, “parents’ attitude toward the private tutoring” and “students’ attitude toward the private tutoring”. There are ten elements having dominantly positive influences on the expenditure of private tutoring, respectively are “grade”,“type of city”, “educational background of father”, “educational background of mother”, “income level of family”, “parents’ expectations of the academic performance”, “own expectations of the academic performance”, “effective guidance of parents”, “parents’ attitude toward the private tutoring” and “students’ attitude toward the private tutoring”.Private tutoring has generated profound influences on the mainstream education,society and economy. In the meanwhile of satisfying diversified requirements of students, the private tutoring has also generated negative influences on the mainstream education. Private tutoring has created opportunities of employment and promoted the economic development, but it has also become the zone which is difficult for the government to supervise. Families having high social economic statuses may occupy more high-quality tutoring resources and result in the social inequality.