The EEXCEL Tutorial System provides a one-to-one student-tutor relationship in the students home via the Internet on powerful specially designed computers provided by EEXCEL linked together by our high speed cable based network. Students and Tutors can see, hear and talk to each other on a real time basis while simultaneously viewing the Student's homework assignment on their respective monitors. We are able to do this because each EEXCEL Communities home is equipped with all the computer cables, Internet connections and powerful computers needed to make the tutorial system interactive and simple to use.

We begin the tutorial program with an assessment of each student to determine scholastic ability and proficiency along with areas of interest such as sports, hobbies, music etc.. The student is then matched with a tutor who shares some common interest with the student. The result of the assessments are then used to develop an individual study program designed to first bring the student up to proficiency levels expected for his or her grade level. This process is critically important to a students ability to be an effective learner.

We have found that students who simply try to learn the current course work without having learned the fundamentals for the current class work do not retain the information as well since gaps exist in their understanding. A student must first learn the underlying fundamentals which create the frame work of the material being studied. The frame work provides the logical relationship upon which all other information is attached. If a student is missing part of the frame work, he will not have the ability to properly relate it to the rest of the information he is expected to learn. As a result, we appear to start off slowly with the student's tutoring because we emphasize the basic frame work first, then we start current classroom work. This method provides the longest lasting learning benefit.

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