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Hess, Frederick M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Efforts to improve education outcomes often involve lengthening the school day or the school year in hopes that spending more time in school will boost student learning. Yet, as Frederick Hess explains, U.S. students spend as much or more total time in school as their peers in other industrialized nations. What matters more than the amount of time…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Time Factors (Learning), Time on Task, Elementary Secondary Education
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Zoder-Martell, Kimberly A.; Floress, Margaret T.; Skriba, Heather A.; Taber, Traci A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
Classroom management systems (CMS) are class-wide strategies that teachers use to keep students on task, attentive, and academically engaged. This review provides teachers an overview of eight effective and socially valid CMSs that are aligned with school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (SWPBIS). The goal is to provide teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Intervention
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Guo, Liping; Li, Jieyun; Xu, Zheng; Hu, Xiaoling; Liu, Chunyan; Xing, Xin; Li, Xiuxia; White, Howard; Yang, Kehu – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2021
This review will synthesize the results from publications focused on homework time and academic performance, and estimate the relationship between the two. Our objectives are: (1) to identify the extent of the relationship between homework time and students' academic performance; (2) to analyze the differences in the effectiveness of homework time…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Homework, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Molfino, Tomas; Hitchcock, Courtney; Travers, Jonathan – Education Resource Strategies, 2021
Childrens' learning has been massively disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the need for more opportunities for differentiated, high-quality learning, stronger relationships with the adults in their school, and streamlined access to social-emotional support -- especially for the country's lowest-income students, Black and Latinx students,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
NWEA, 2017
Two years ago, Dr. Steven Adamowski, Superintendent of Norwalk Public Schools, challenged his leadership team to make sure that Norwalk's assessment system effectively supported efforts "to raise the bar and close the gaps" for all students. Dr. Michael Conner, Chief Academic Officer, and Diane Filardo, Director of Assessment…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Public Schools, Educational Assessment, School Districts
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David, Ann D.; Jansky, Katrina – English in Texas, 2018
In the article "No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Reading Instruction in a Time of Change" published in "English in Texas" in 2017, the authors, Ann D. David and Katrina Jansky, viewed reading instruction through five touchstones: time, choice, relevance, talk, and routines and rituals. This article expands on those touchstones by…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
Browne, Daniel – Wallace Foundation, 2019
This Wallace "Perspective" delves into what makes for a high-quality, voluntary summer learning program, one that provides children from disadvantaged communities with engaging academics as well as stimulating enrichment activities during the interval between the end of the school year and back-to-school time. Interest in these programs…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment Activities, Program Effectiveness
Woods, Julie Rowland – Education Commission of the States, 2015
For more than 30 years, Education Commission of the States has tracked instructional time and frequently receives requests for information about policies and trends. In this Education Trends report, Education Commission of the States addresses some of the more frequent questions, including the impact of instructional time on achievement, variation…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Time Factors (Learning), Time on Task, Academic Achievement
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Downs, Roger M. – Journal of Geography, 2014
A goal of geography education is fostering geographic literacy for all and building significant expertise for some. How much time and practice do students need to become literate or expert in geography? There is not an answer to this question. Using two concepts from cognitive psychology--the ideas of ten thousand hours and deliberate…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Cognitive Psychology, Expertise
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Hart, John T., Jr. – Music Educators Journal, 2014
Ensemble directors have a special interest in helping students learn to practice effectively. Practice is also an essential component of musical development. Music educators need to both teach effective practice strategies and guide students toward meaningful, thoughtful practice. Metacognition strategies are one way to accomplish this. Current…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Educational Practices, Drills (Practice), Teaching Methods
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Kelly, Frank S. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2013
The paper explores important issues in today's education, not by analyses and statistics, but by projecting readers into the future and then asking them to look back on today's schools and to act like archaeologists--to surmise from all sorts of things they can observe, what was really important to us, what we really valued, how we treated kids,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings, Classroom Design
Norris, Cathleen; Hossain, Akhlaq; Soloway, Elliot – Educational Technology, 2011
The authors stand by this prediction: Within five years "every" child in "every" grade in "every" K-12 classroom in America will be using a mobile learning device (MLD), 24/7. And a corollary already being seen in MLD-using classrooms: Student achievement will increase "significantly", since time-on-task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices
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Hall, James W.; Fuson, Karen C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
For simple vocabulary items, the amount that subjects can learn during a given period of study is markedly underestimated when unusually slow presentation rates are imposed. That disadvantage apparently is less when subjects use the keyword mnemonic. The use of self-pacing or of multiple-rate conditions is suggested. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mnemonics, Research Methodology, Time on Task
Ybarra, Silvia; Hollingsworth, John – Leadership, 2001
Describes four components of the DataWorks Productivity Index (DPI) that measures classroom productivity: time on task, curriculum alignment, breadth of curriculum, and teacher effectiveness. (PKP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Bouie, Edward L., Sr.; And Others – 1987
Although parents are their children's first and most influential teachers, parents are sometimes absent from the schools' educational process. Based on research stressing the positive connection between parental involvement and student achievement, the DeKalb County School system (Decatur, Georgia) has implemented several strategies to increase…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Motivation Techniques, Parent Participation
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