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Study • Education · Attendance

Can an Email Make it Easier to Schedule Tutoring?

Summary by BHUB

A randomized evaluation found that among students who were eligible to use the Tutoring Center, the redesigned emails sent to students increased their likelihood of attending tutoring by almost 2 percentage points, from 5.0% to 6.7%, and increased the overall number of tutoring sessions that were attended from 171 to 263.

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