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Download full textZachariah, Kosgei K.; Joshua, Keter K. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
While education is considered to be a human right and need, the delivery of secondary education in Kenya has been slow due to a number of bottlenecks that includes: (one), differential trends in access and participation in secondary school education with low participation of the poor and (two), low efficiency and quality of education as indicated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Day Schools, Boarding Schools, Secondary Schools
Direct linkDundes, Lauren; Marx, Jeff – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2007
Given that 74% of undergraduates work an average of 25.5 hours per week while going to school, we know surprisingly little about how off-campus employment affects undergraduates and to what extent its impact varies by the number of hours worked. Our survey of undergraduates at a small liberal arts college found that the academic performance of…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Academic Achievement, College Students, Time on Task
Walczyk, Jeffrey J.; Griffith-Ross, Diana A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
The compensatory-encoding theory (C-ET) of reading specifies how the efficiency of performance subcomponents affects comprehension under diverse task conditions. It maintains that readers can overcome weak skills through compensatory processes. To test whether C-ET captures more general principles underlying scholastic performance, the authors…
Descriptors: Algebra, Undergraduate Students, Time on Task, Problem Solving
National Education Commission on Time and Learning, Washington, DC. – 1994
The Education Council Act of 1991 established the National Education Commission on Time and Learning as an independent advisory body and called for a comprehensive review of the relationship between time and learning in U.S. schools. This document serves as a supplementary volume to the commission's first report released in May 1994, which found…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
2000
In 1994, the National Education Commission on Time and Learning (NECTL) published "Prisoners of Time," an eye-opening study into how much schools are governed by the clock and calendar, and how families, administrators, and teachers are subsequently affected. This report expands and updates the 1994 report, adding informative questions and answers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Kane, Cheryl M. – 1994
The Education Council Act of 1991 Established the National Education Commission on Time and Learning as an independent advisory body and called for a comprehensive review of the relationship between time and learning in American schools. The commission's report, released in May 1994, found that school reform is destined to founder unless programs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
