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Direct linkAbadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
Studies have shown that the amount of time students spend engaged in learning tasks is related to learning outcomes. However, schools often offer to the students only a fraction of the time that governments pay for, and schools in lower-income areas often offer less time than governments plan for students. Instructional time ought to be an…
Descriptors: Accountability, Time, Time Blocks, Time Factors (Learning)
Steagall, Paul H. Jr.; Calhoun, C. C., Ed. – Bus Educ Forum, 1969
Descriptors: Business Education, Comparative Analysis, Program Evaluation, Time Blocks
Download full textWarden, Eric; Leidich, Paula B. – 1969
This paper records one small school's adaptation of variable scheduling and the reactions of the school's staff and students to one year of the schedule's operation. The purpose of this experiential paper is to show how one school staff can cooperatively adapt a concept such as variable scheduling to its own needs, rather than to provide a…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Time Blocks
Krumrey, Darwin L. – Balance Sheet, 1970
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Rotation Plans, Student Needs, Time Blocks
Garrison, Lloyd L. – Journal of Business Education, 1970
Modular scheduling or the systems approach--which for business education? (Author)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Flexible Scheduling, Systems Approach, Time Blocks
Sloan Work and Family Research Network, 2008
The Sloan Work and Family Research Network has prepared Fact Sheets that provide statistical answers to some important questions about work-family and work-life issues. This Fact Sheet includes statistics about Child Care, and answers the following questions about child care: (1) How many children are in child care?; (2) How many hours per week do…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Child Care, Marital Status, Time Factors (Learning)
Berg, L. L.; And Others – 1970
Flexible modular scheduling is discussed as a means for achieving individualized instruction in the classroom. Scheduling, in general, is presented as a compromise among four elements: a) individualizing the educational program for each student, b) utilizing available facilities, c) utilizing available staff, and d) capitalizing on staff…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Flexible Scheduling, Scheduling
Peer reviewedBoyer, Ernest L. – Educational Record, 1972
Suggests reforms for academic scheduling that would allow persons to earn baccalaureates in a shorter period of time than the traditional 4 years. (HS)
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Higher Education, Scheduling, School Schedules
Smith, Darlene R. – Bus Educ Forum, 1970
Descriptors: Office Occupations Education, Simulated Environment, Teaching Methods, Time Blocks
Baillargeon, Jarvis H. – Sch Shop, 1969
That flexible scheduling can be adapted to the industrial arts school shop is illustrated with outlines of two graphic arts courses designed for two different ability levels. (GR)
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Industrial Arts, Time Blocks
Forehand, Lee; Watkins, J. Foster – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
This scheduling plan features three quarters of 12 weeks and a school day divided into three blocks: morning and afternoon instructional blocks of two and one-half hours each and a midday period of one and one-third hours that includes lunch time, tutorial time, and unstructured student time. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: High Schools, Models, Program Descriptions, School Schedules
Woodfin, Mary Jo – J Exp Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Grade 3, Individualized Instruction, Time Blocks, Writing Exercises
HOLZMAN, A.G.; TURKES, W.R. – 1964
THE PROJECT WAS INITIATED TO DEVELOP, BY COMPUTER, A MASTER SCHEDULE FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN ORDER TO FREE ADMINISTRATORS FROM THE DETAILS OF THIS BURDENSOME TASK. THE RESEARCH WAS SEPARATED FROM PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL SCHEDULING SYSTEMS AND THE GENERATION OF A MASTER SCHEDULE BY COMPUTER WAS EMPHASIZED. THE GENERATED…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Computers, High Schools, School Schedules
COURSON, CLIFFORD C.; O'BRIEN, CORINNE – 1968
"BLOCK SCHEDULING," DEFINED AS PLACING A GROUP OF STUDENTS IN A COMMON BLOCK OF BASIC COURSES TO SHARE THE SAME DAILY CLASS SCHEDULE, PERMITS INSTRUCTORS TO MEET A MORE COHENSIVE GROUP. IT ALSO SIMPLIFIES REGISTRATION AND SCHEDULING, AS STUDENTS ACCEPT A PREPARED GROUP OF COURSES INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUALLY SELECTED ONES. FOR THE STUDENT, IT MEANS…
Descriptors: Class Organization, General Education, Scheduling, Time Blocks
Peer reviewedMabbott, Deborah D. – Clearing House, 1972
Some hints for making poetry lessons relevant, worthwhile, and interesting for students. (AN)
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Memorization, Poetry, Teacher Effectiveness
