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Kuceris, Misty – Executive Educator, 1982
To improve test scores and instructional quality, school districts in New Brunswick (New Jersey) and Adams County (Colorado) implemented programs to increase student time on task. Administrators introducing time on task programs should involve teachers and principals in planning, answer six staff questions, and provide support for necessary…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Program Development, Program Implementation
Chambers, Donald L. – School Administrator, 1986
An overview of research and practice about mathematics reveals that good teachers keep students on task, devote half the class time to new material, review skills, stress concepts and relationships, emphasize higher order thinking skills, ask process questions, monitor understanding, and use a variety of structures. Ten references are appended.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Instruction, Questioning Techniques
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Karweit, Nancy – NASSP Bulletin, 1988
Recent research findings relating to time-on-task have had little effect on school practice. One cause was reducing the findings to an oversimplified statement that equated more time with more learning. Offers ways that schools can increase time-on-task. (CJH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Research Problems, School Schedules
Doyle, Walter – 1984
This document provides administrators and instructional supervisors a framework for thinking about teaching and learning in secondary schools and suggests specific focal points for working with teachers to maintain and improve teaching effectiveness. The first section contains a discussion of instructional time and its meaning for secondary…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Individual Instruction, Instructional Improvement
Guzzetti, Barbara; Martin, Michael – 1984
This study measures performance frequency of leadership tasks of approximately 20 percent of Colorado's principals. Principals most experienced do not differ from others on the frequency assessment scale, yet spend more time on instructional leadership activities, which range from teacher support (professional growth opportunities, rewards) and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Chickering, Arthur W.; Gamson, Zelda F. – AAHE Bulletin, 1987
Seven principles that can help to improve undergraduate education are identified. Based on research on college teaching and learning, good practice in undergraduate education: (1) encourages contacts between students and faculty; (2) develops reciprocity and cooperation among students; (3) uses active learning techniques; (4) gives prompt…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Principles, Expectation, Feedback
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Dessem, 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
Hess, Fred – 1987
Several years ago, a coalition of Chicago civic groups met to determine the scope of the urban dropout problem and develop strategies for dealing with it. The resulting research program rejected both attrition and survey analysis approaches in favor of direct examination of all student records for three graduating classes (1982, 1983, and 1984)…
Descriptors: Dropout Research, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Ethnography
Ellis, Thomas I. – 1984
Arguments for lengthening the school day and/or school year are predicated on the notion that more time devoted to learning will yield proportionally higher achievement scores. Research reveals, however, that the correlation between time and achievement is far slighter than expected. The quality of instructional time is more important than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Day
Dyreson, Margaret – 1980
Research-based answers are offered to the following questions on instructional time: (1) Can student achievement be improved by making time to teach? (2) What can a classroom teacher do to make time to teach? and (3) How can a school or district help the teacher? Factors related to instructional time which are described as having an effect on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Steller, Arthur W. – Updating School Board Policies, 1985
School board members can use board policies to set the direction for effective instructional management. Effective schools appear to have these characteristics in common: (1) strong instructional leadership by the principal, (2) a safe and orderly atmosphere, (3) high expectations of all students, (4) schoolwide emphasis on basic skills…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Board of Education Policy, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Ponzio, Richard; Russell, Thomas L. – 1984
This report is part of a paper set which focuses on a project designated as "Applying Research to Teacher Education (ARTE)." It reviews application possibilities of teacher effectiveness research in elementary classrooms to science teaching at the secondary level. Mills College (Oakland, California) was one of the sites involved in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement
Spady, William G. – 1984
This paper presents ideas relating to curriculum organization from the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development publication, "Excellence in Our Schools: Making It Happen," which attempted to synthesize nine reports written in response to the National Commission on Excellence in Education report, "A Nation at…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
Bossert, Steve – 1984
This speech discusses problems that principals face in trying to implement effective school strategies, describes ongoing research in instructional management, and identifies school improvement strategies used by particularly effective principals. The first section addresses practical problems in finding the appropriate balance between high…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Class Size
Rouk, Ullik – Educational R & D Report, 1982
In a project led by Research for Better Schools (RBS), educators work with researchers to improve basic skills learning. Based on research findings relating the amount of time allocated for instruction and student achievement, one school made scheduling changes to reduce the time spent moving from one classroom to another. Other classroom…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Research, Cooperative Planning, Data Collection
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