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He, Qiwei; Borgonovi, Francesca; Suárez-Álvarez, Javier – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Data-driven investigations of how students transit pages in digital reading tasks and how much time they spend on each transition allow mapping sequences of navigation behaviours into students' navigation reading strategies. Objectives: The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to identify students' navigation patterns in…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Reading Processes, Task Analysis, Time on Task
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Cattaneo, Maria A.; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. – Education Economics, 2017
Building on earlier work that explored within-student variation in hours of instruction across school subjects, we investigate the impact of instruction time on student test scores in Switzerland, as measured by the PISA 2009 test. Our results confirm the results of previous studies of a positive effect of instruction time on student performance.…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Time Factors (Learning), Time on Task, Scores
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Jakubowski, Maciej; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Porta, Emilio Ernesto; Wisniewski, Jerzy – Education Economics, 2016
Delaying tracking, extending students' exposure to a general academic education and increasing their time on task on basic competences (reading, mathematics) could improve academic outcomes. To test the hypothesis that delayed vocational streaming improves academic outcomes, this paper analyzes Poland's significant improvements in international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Track System (Education), Secondary School Students, Educational Change
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Lau, Kwok Chi – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2014
The study has integrated the data from PISA 2006 to 2012 to give an overall picture of the cognitive and affective performances and pedagogy of East Asian regions on PISA scientific literacy. Attempts are made to account for their performances based on the PISA data and cultural characteristics. The cognitive science performance of East Asian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Scientific Literacy, Achievement Tests
Lavy, Victor – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2010
There are large differences across countries in instructional time in public schooling institutions. For example, among European countries such as Belgium, France and Greece, pupils aged 15 have an average of over a thousand hours per year of total compulsory classroom instruction while in England, Luxembourg and Sweden the average is only 750…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Time Factors (Learning), Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Lavy, Victor – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
There are large differences across countries in instructional time in schooling institutions. Can these differences explain some of the differences across countries in pupils' achievements in different subjects? While research in recent years provides convincing evidence about the effect of several inputs in the education production function,…
Descriptors: Productivity, Middle Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement