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Direct linkMeerts-Brandsma, Lisa; Riley, Michael; Sibthorp, Jim – Learning Environments Research, 2023
Semester schools provide high-school students with a relatively new type of learning environment that largely has not been empirically studied. This study used a retrospective survey (n = 797) to explore the learning outcomes that stem from semester schools and identify features within the educational environment that promote them. Participants…
Descriptors: Semester System, High School Students, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes
Download full textKozak, Stan – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2011
In the 1970s, Ontario secondary schools started to adopt the semester system, four courses over the day where there had been seven. With this change, a creative outdoor educator realized that one teacher could take a group of students for all four credits, eliminating the restrictions of the timetable and addressing opportunities to learn in the…
Descriptors: Semester System, School Restructuring, Learning Strategies, Credits
