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Peer reviewedDessem, R. Lawrence – Journal of Legal Education, 1999
One of a series of articles on principles of good practice in legal education, this article focuses on the importance of spending time and energy for efficient learning. Discusses ways to optimize student time on task, faculty time on task, institutional time on task, and the overall time and attention devoted to teaching and learning within legal…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Efficiency
Download full textYsseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1987
The monograph provides an integrative review on the environmental and instructional factors that appear to be most conducive to the complex, interactive, and interdependent process of learning. Ten instructional strategies empirically documented to have a critical impact on a student's ability to learn are discussed in detail. They are: (1) The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedBennett, Neville – British Educational Research Journal, 1996
Questions major participants in England's school system about the problem of increasing class size. Assesses several broad areas affected by class size, including children as learners, management of resources, decision making, and teachers' classroom practices. Discovers a general consensus of concern over increasing class size. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrators, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Crowding
Brady, Michael P.; And Others – 1988
The Middle School Study of Mainstreamed Students sought to establish a foundation for interdisciplinary research on middle school mainstreaming by merging teacher effectiveness and special education practices. The study examined teaching behaviors through macro (classroom) and micro (individual student) analyses of classroom interactions, to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities
ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Boulder, CO. – 1983
Commissioned papers to help the National Commission on Excellence in Education make the recommendations for educational improvement for its report "A Nation at Risk" are cited in this annotated listing. The report presents recommendations in five areas: content, standards and expectations, time, teaching, and leadership and fiscal…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum, Educational Change
Miller, Juliet V.; And Others – 1984
This set of five digests provides an overview of the issue of attaining excellence in vocational education. The first digest deals with effective schools research, characteristics of effective schools, implications of effective schools research for high school vocational education, and strategies for improving school effectiveness. Covered in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Back to Basics, Basic Skills, Career Education
