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Zepeda, Sally J.; Mayers, R. Stewart – Review of Educational Research, 2006
In this analysis of 58 empirical studies of high school block scheduling, the authors report findings in and across five groupings. Within groups, data were inconsistent regarding whether teachers' practices changed, but teachers believed that staff development was necessary to teach in a block schedule. Block scheduling appeared to increase…
Descriptors: High Schools, Standardized Tests, Grade Point Average, Block Scheduling
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Zepeda, Sally J.; Mayers, R. Stewart – High School Journal, 2001
Across the United States, an ever-increasing number of high schools have reevaluated their use of instructional time and have adopted some form of a block schedule. Block scheduling, an innovation grounded in Trump's Flexible Modular Scheduling Design, reorganizes the school day into extended blocks of time, each approximately 70 to 90 minutes.…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Block Scheduling, Discipline Problems, Mentors