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Tan, Sok-Leng; Callahan, John; Hatch, Jotham; Jordan, Travis; Eastmond, Nick; Burnham, Byron – 2002
This study, administered by students in the department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University (USU), examined the block scheduling program at Millard High School (Delta, Utah). The block scheduling program, begun in the 1998-99 school year, was introduced to allow greater flexibility in scheduling, particularly for released time…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Educational Research, High Schools, Program Effectiveness
Crawford, Elizabeth; Torgesen, Joseph – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2007
One of the most critical needs in Florida's "Reading First" schools is to improve the effectiveness of interventions for struggling readers. For example, during the 2005-2006 school year, only 17% of first grade students who began the year at some level of risk for reading difficulties finished the year with grade level skills on the…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Emergent Literacy, Grade 3, Grade 2
Pisapia, John; Westfall, Amy Lynn – 1997
In 1995 the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC), Richmond (Virginia) commissioned a study of alternative high school scheduling modules to determine the effects of different schedules on teaching strategies, teacher and student satisfaction, and student and school performance. This report presents the results of an analysis of the…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Flexible Scheduling, High School Students, High Schools
Pisapia, John; Westfall, Amy Lynn – 1997
In 1995 the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC), Richmond (Virginia) commissioned a study of alternative high school scheduling modules to determine the effects of different schedules on teaching strategies, teacher and student satisfaction, and student and school performance. This report presents the results of an analysis of a…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Flexible Scheduling, High School Students, High Schools