NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Assessments and Surveys
Program for International…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Vogler, Kenneth E.; Schramm, Susan; Allan, Audrey; Parler, Jake D. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020
This study investigated the relationship among the variables instructional time configuration, gender, race/ethnicity, and poverty to predict the academic performance of seventh-grade students on a state-mandated social studies accountability test. Results of 24,919 seventh-grade student social studies test scores from 117 middle schools, as well…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Time on Task, Race, Ethnicity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Târlea, Silvana; Han, Christine; Nugroho, Dita; Karamperidou, Despina – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
The Government of South Sudan, through the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI) and its development partners, has made efforts over the past decade to rebuild South Sudan's primary education system. Challenges to the delivery of education have persisted, both within the education system and external to it. The Time to Teach study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attendance, Time on Task, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Berg, Alissa; Mensah, Felicia Moore – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
This study identifies and explores the dilemmas experienced by three first-grade teachers in teaching elementary school science. The impact of coaching and teachers' career stages on how teachers reconcile their dilemmas was examined. Results of this comparative case study indicate teachers perceived tensions between focusing instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Coaching (Performance), Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Harr-Robins, Jenifer; Song, Mengli; Garet, Michael; Danielson, Louis – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2015
This report presents descriptive findings on school practices in 12 states for schools explicitly held accountable for the performance of the students with disabilities (SWD) subgroup. The study found that, when surveyed in 2011, elementary schools accountable for the SWD subgroup were 15.8 percentage-points more likely than never-accountable…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Inclusion, Federal Legislation
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
Srikantaiah, Deepa; Zhang, Ying; Swayhoover, Lisa – Center on Education Policy, 2008
In the winter and spring of 2007-08, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) expanded its ongoing research on the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) by conducting case studies of six schools in Rhode Island to learn more about the influence of NCLB and related state accountability policies on curriculum, instruction, and student…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Observation, State Standards, Standardized Tests