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Project ‘Xplika’, undertaken at the University of Aveiro, studies the private tutoring market, school effectiveness and students’ performance in Portugal. This chapter summarises and integrates the findings of the main project, and a number of further related studies.
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Neto-Mendes, A., Costa, J.A., Ventura, A., Azevedo, S., Gouveia, A. (2013). Private Tutoring in Portugal. In: Bray, M., Mazawi, A.E., Sultana, R.G. (eds) Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-237-2_9
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