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Saloviita, Timo – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2016
Transitional periods, such as lesson starts, are necessary steps from one activity to another, but they also compete with time for actual learning. The aim of the present study was to replicate a previous pilot study on lesson starts and explore possible disturbances. In total, 130 lesson starts in Finnish basic education in grades 1-9 were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Elementary School Students, Pilot Projects
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Bay, Dondu Neslihan – Reading Improvement, 2015
This study investigated the participation of children at the writing center in their classroom during free choice time. For this study, four and five year-old children in the classroom were observed during 20 free choice times, each one of which was one hour. I developed a coding system related to the activities that were intended to develop the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Participation, Writing (Composition), Time Factors (Learning)
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Morales, Erik E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
This case study documents a university and secondary school partnership designed to improve classroom management and student time on task at an urban charter high school. The initiative utilized the expertise and knowledge of college of education faculty to identify and ameliorate the high school's observed barriers to students' time on task, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Urban Schools
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Woods-McConney, Amanda; Wosnitza, Marold; Sturrock, Keryn L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Science education research has recommended cooperative inquiry based science in the primary science context for more than two decades but after more than 20 years, student achievement in science has not substantially improved. This study, through direct observation and analysis, investigated content-related student interactions in an authentic…
Descriptors: Science Education, Elementary School Science, Primary Education, Inquiry
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Smith, Nicole J.; Monnat, Shannon M.; Lounsbery, Monica A. F. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: The purpose of this study was to compare physical activity (PA) outcomes in a sample of high school (HS) physical education (PE) lessons from schools that adopted "traditional" versus "modified block" schedule formats. Methods: We used the System for Observing Fitness Instruction Time (SOFIT) to conduct observations…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, High Schools
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Ratcliff, Nancy J.; Pritchard, Nicholas A.; Knight, Caroline W.; Costner, Richard H.; Jones, Cathy R.; Hunt, Gilbert H. – Journal of Research in Education, 2014
Research was conducted to determine what impact school organization and classroom dynamics had on student achievement. Results from standardized benchmark tests found no significant differences in scores across all schools and content areas; yet, end of course standardized measures indicated that students in sites employing block scheduling…
Descriptors: School Organization, Classroom Environment, Academic Achievement, Scores
Mercurio, Harry J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative study examined the amount of time that fourth and fifth grade teachers devoted to literacy instruction within the time allotted to them within the daily literacy block. Prior research of the literacy block focused largely on primary grades (Allington, McGill-Franzen et a1.,2010; Cunningham & Allington, 2003; Morrow, 1992);…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Time Blocks, Educational Practices
Babini, Kathleen Callanan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Public schools stress the need for students to become informed and engaged citizens, however social studies instruction is becoming marginalized in many elementary schools today, the very area where they learn citizenship and about the world around them. This study seeks to: understand the reason for the loss of instructional time for social…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Thompson, Linda – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1997
Observed six children of settled migrants on their first day in nursery school and again 12 weeks later, analyzing changes in their time-on-task. Found that the number of activities selected did not generally increase, but the time spent on sustained activities did, with this time period being significantly longer than those recorded in previous…
Descriptors: Attention, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Minority Group Children
Srikantaiah, Deepa; Zhang, Ying; Swayhoover, Lisa – Center on Education Policy, 2008
In the winter and spring of 2007-08, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) expanded its ongoing research on the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) by conducting case studies of six schools in Rhode Island to learn more about the influence of NCLB and related state accountability policies on curriculum, instruction, and student…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Observation, State Standards, Standardized Tests
Romberg, Thomas A.; And Others – 1982
Data are reported for the classroom observational portion of a cross-sectional study conducted in Tasmania, Australia to examine the acquisition and development of addition and subtraction skills in young children. During the study, a group of students in grades l, 2, and 3 who differed in cognitive processing skills were observed during…
Descriptors: Addition, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Cross Sectional Studies