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Research on Private Tutoring in Malaysia: Methodological Insights from a Quantitative Study

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Researching Private Supplementary Tutoring

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In Malaysia, private tutoring is widely perceived as a household necessity. A 2004/05 household expenditure survey recorded that 20.1 per cent of households with at least one child aged seven to 19 indicated expenditures on private tutoring.

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  1. Department of Education Management, Planning & Policy, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Husaina Banu Kenayathulla

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  2. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Ora Kwo

  3. Centre for Educational Research and Deve, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Boris Jokić

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Kenayathulla, H.B. (2016). Research on Private Tutoring in Malaysia: Methodological Insights from a Quantitative Study. In: Bray, M., Kwo, O., Jokić, B. (eds) Researching Private Supplementary Tutoring. CERC Studies in Comparative Education, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30042-9_2

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