Surveying Extracurricular Tutorials Of C Primary School In Kunming

With the speedy development of the society, higher standards are set during the selection of competent personnel, and growing competition in job market also generates a sense of urgency and anxiety among pupils and their parents. As parents are better educated and earn more income, they are more willing and financially able to invest in their children’s education and demonstrate a marked diversity in their educational needs. As traditional mainstream schools still fail to cope with the individualized needs of pupils in learning and personal development, it is not uncommon for students to attend extracurricular tutorials (ETs), and a growing number of younger ones also join the tide, it extensive impacts on both mainstream education as well as the socio-economic development. With increasing student population and growing recognition from both parents and students, ETs, as a special mode of learning, are of practical and research value. Compared with institutionalized learning, ETs are mostly conducted in secrecy, making it difficult to gather sufficient statistics, manage teaching materials and supervise related practices.This study integrates such data-gathering methods as questionnaires and interviews in a survey in C Primary School in Kunming to explore the status quo of ETs for pupils in terms of their scale, teaching contents, forms, intensity, motivations, financial spending and to locate the factors that influence their decisions and deeds. Besides, interviews are also conducted to learn about the experiences and comments of parents and pupils attending ETs, and therefore to analyze and reflect on this educational phenomenon.As the research findings reveal, ETs are a common practice in after-school learning of pupils; despite the varieties in teaching contents and methods, such ETs are too demanding for some pupils, there is no positive correlation between the family income and their financial spending on ETs, and over a half of students and parents surveyed are satisfied about the effects of such extra training after class.A multi-faceted probe into the reasons for joining ETs from the perspectives of the pupils, their parents, institutionalized education and the society, coupled with the survey findings, shows that ETs helps promote "the academic progress of pupils, the extension and complement to school education and the individualized and democratic content of family education", though contributing negatively to pupils’ mounting mental pressure from extensive classes, new educational inequality and the implementation of quality-oriented education.In addition, a series of suggestions are also advanced, including promoting balanced development among schools, reforming existing examination system, drawing lessons from abroad to handle problems outside institutionalized schooling, promoting the quality-oriented education through ETs, helping parents foster scientific conception of and attitude to education, strengthening the management and monitoring of ETs centers and institutions, and supervising teaching quality in schools as well as the part-time ETs jobs of the teaching staff.