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Dietz, Joshua M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teachers are given preparation time during the school day to complete necessary tasks, however, research shows that teachers continue to work longer hours than their peers in the past. Researchers have identified non-instructional teacher time use, which are the tasks teachers need to complete that are not directly related to instruction, as a…
Descriptors: Teacher Responsibility, Faculty Workload, Elementary School Teachers, Time Management
Marissa Strassberger; Barbara Condliffe – MDRC, 2024
High-dosage tutoring-defined as consistently scheduled tutorials during the school day in which students work with a trained tutor in small groups (for example, four students to one tutor) at least three times per week--is among the most promising educational interventions for improving student learning. Despite their appeal, high-dosage tutoring…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Tutors
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Mzamani Jully Mdaka; Maropeng Modiba – South African Journal of Education, 2024
The study reported on here was conducted to explore four Grade 7 mathematics teachers' understanding of the relationship between the objectives indicated in the CAPS for teaching different topics/concepts and instructional time stipulated for doing so. Seven lessons were studied in 4 primary schools in the Vhembe district of the Limpopo province,…
Descriptors: Time Management, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 7
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Játiva, Ximena; Karamperidou, Despina; Mills, Michelle; Vindrola, Stefania; Wedajo, Hanna; Dsouza, Andrea; Bergmann, Jessica – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Teachers are the most important drivers of students' academic achievement and they are at the heart of learning recovery efforts. Finding out the bottlenecks and necessary conditions for ensuring teachers' presence at school and in the classroom is essential. Time to Teach is a mixed methods research initiative that aims to find out the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attendance, Influences
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Turner, Jon Scott; Finch, Kim; Ximena, Uribe-Zarian – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The four-day school week is a concept that has been utilized in rural schools for decades to respond to budgetary shortfalls. There has been little peer-reviewed research on the four-day school week that has focused on the perception of staff that work in school districts that have recently switched to the four-day model. This study collects data…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Schools, Employee Attitudes
Alquizar, Janice Serenio – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of this undertaking was to describe the multitasking of teachers in the workplace. Employing phenomenological approach with 15 teachers, in-depth interviews and focus group discussion were conducted which revealed that multitasking of teachers in the workplace is prevalent. Three major themes of multitasking of teachers as experienced…
Descriptors: Time Management, Teacher Responsibility, Productivity, Teacher Motivation
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Tao, Wei – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper analyzes the phenomenon that reducing hours of EFL instruction to non-English majors in Chinese universities gets no response. It first depicts the phenomenon, pointing out that this phenomenon differs greatly from people's response to similar events that happened in the past. It then analyzes the complicated underlying factors from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Kozmina, Ia. Ia. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
The author assesses the preferences of the faculty and teaching staff at Russian universities with regard to their research and teaching duties. She investigates how they structure their work schedule and academic productivity, and how universities with and without special status differ. The study is based on data from two international studies…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Preferences, Teacher Researchers
Chambers, Jay; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Wang, Antonia; O'Neil, Caitlin – RAND Corporation, 2014
The goal of the Intensive Partnership (IP) initiative is to improve student success by transforming how teachers are recruited, developed, assigned, rewarded, and retained. RAND and American Institutes for Research (AIR) have been studying the seven IP sites (including three districts and four charter management organizations--CMOs) since the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Time Management
Gosnell-Lamb, Judith – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the advent of No Child Left behind in 2002, public education in the United States entered into a reform movement with mounting consequences and ramifications. This unprecedented federal in-road into public education became the umbrella regulator over programs, staff, budgets and students. The purpose of this quantitative study was to…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Watrous, Lorena Harper – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this mixed-methods explanatory case study was to determine the impact of a reduced school calendar on student achievement for students in grades 9 through 12 in two rural school districts in Virginia and to explore meanings associated with this change. The study focused on two research questions: how does student performance during…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Schedules, Time on Task, Program Effectiveness
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Baumann, James F. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes the characteristics of effective reading programs and presents implications for the improvement of reading instruction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Planning
Tracz, Susan M.; Gibson, Sherri – 1986
Teacher efficacy is a critical variable in teacher and school effectiveness. The Teacher Efficacy Scale was used to assess teacher efficacy and investigate its relationship to teacher use of time, student time on task, and student achievement. Classroom observations were gathered from 14 teachers, grades 4-6, at two schools. Teacher allocation of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Elementary School Teachers, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Redick, Sharon; And Others – 1984
A study examined the impact of time allocation on the performance and satisfaction of special needs and nondisabled students enrolled in a vocational home economics community and home services program in one Ohio school district. During the study, researchers compared the performance and attitudes of disabled and nondisabled students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Services, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities
Sparks, Georgea Mohlman – 1983
The relationships among training activities, teacher perceptions of recommended practices, and teacher behavior change were investigated. Nineteen junior high school teachers of low-achieving students were observed prior to receiving training in workshops on use of academic time. The teachers also responded to questionnaires designed to determine…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Innovation, Junior High Schools
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