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Measuring the Effects of Instructional Time on Student Learning: Evidence from the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study.
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Brown, Byron, W.; Saks, Daniel H. – American Journal of Education, 1986
Examines whether learning rates vary across students, teachers, and subject matter as a function of instructional time. Offers a model of the relationship between time and learning. Discovers that the varying positive effects of instructional time on reading and mathematics achievement depend on teachers' and students' initial ability. (ETS)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classroom Research, Learning, Mathematics Achievement
Affective Learning in Online Multimedia and Lecture Versions of an Introductory Computing Course
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Moneta, Giovanni B.; Kekkonen-Moneta, Synnove S. – Educational Psychology, 2007
This study evaluated students' affective learning in an introductory computing course that was taught in Hong Kong once in a lecture format and twice in a rich interactive multimedia online format to 414 college students in all. A simplified experience sampling method was used to assess affective learning at the midterm and end of each course in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy, Academic Ability, Self Efficacy
Family Values, the Curriculum of the Home, and Educational Productivity.
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Redding, Sam – School Community Journal, 1992
The "curriculum of the home" consists of patterns of habit formation and attitude development that prepare children for academic learning and sustain them through the schooling years. Building on Herbert Walberg's educational productivity findings, this article isolates family values (high regard for personal development, communication,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education