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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
Bowyer, Kyle – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Student workload is a contributing factor to students deciding to withdraw from their study before completion of the course, at significant cost to students, institutions and society. The aim of this paper is to create a basic workload model for a group of undergraduate students studying business law units at Curtin University in Western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Undergraduate Students, Business Education
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2011
At a time when the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and partner countries are trying to figure out how to reduce burgeoning debt and make the most of shrinking public budgets, spending on education is an obvious target for scrutiny. Education officials, teachers, policy makers, parents and students struggle to determine…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Time Factors (Learning), Educational Finance, International Education
Qi, Wen; Cole, James S. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2011
Each year more students with career and technical education (CTE) backgrounds are transitioning to four-year institutions. This exploratory study investigated differences between CTE, community college transfers and native (nontransfer) students at four-year institutions in regard to how they balance their time and their academic engagement…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Vocational Education, Learner Engagement, Time Factors (Learning)
Lang, K. Brandon – College Student Journal, 2012
Using data collected as part of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), this study examines differences between the grades, time spent preparing for class, involvement in co-curricular activities, time spent socializing and overall enjoyment of their college experience of working and non-working students at a mid-sized public university.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Student Employment, Correlation
Nwaokoro, Amaechi Nkemakolem – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
This study focuses on the importance of students' hard work and institutional factors--technology, advising, mentoring, and tutoring on student's academic performance. It is important for institutions to emphasize both students' hard work and effective institutional factors that will have positive impact on student success.
Descriptors: Investigations, Institutional Characteristics, Success, College Students
Socias, Miguel; deSousa, Juliette-Marie; Le Floch, Kerstin Carlson – US Department of Education, 2009
Under federal regulations, school districts that have been identified for improvement or corrective action are not eligible to be supplemental educational service providers. However, the U.S. Department of Education granted waivers to five such districts, on a pilot basis, to allow those districts to provide supplemental educational services. Two…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Pilot Projects
Gamse, Beth C.; Bloom, Howard S.; Kemple, James J.; Jacob, Robin Tepper – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
This executive summary describes results of the "Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report." The report presents preliminary findings from the Reading First Impact Study, a congressionally mandated evaluation of the federal government initiative to help all children read at or above grade level by the end of third grade. The No Child…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, National Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension
Gamse, Beth C.; Bloom, Howard S.; Kemple, James J.; Jacob, Robin Tepper – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
This report presents preliminary findings from the Reading First Impact Study, a congressionally mandated evaluation of the federal government initiative to help all children read at or above grade level by the end of third grade. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) established Reading First and mandated its evaluation. This document is…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, National Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension

Wambach, Cathrine; Brothen, Thomas – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2001
Examines the performance of four developmental students in a psychology class, each of whom demonstrated a specific type of procrastination: (1) avoidance; (2) arousal; (3) fear of failure; and (4) disorganized or rebellious. States that students were alike in their tendency to postpone work, but they varied in levels of anxiety, timing of work,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Self Management, Student Behavior, Student Characteristics
Inglis, Sidney A., Ed. – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1980
Describes the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study, whose purpose was to identify classroom conditions and teaching activities that foster student learning in elementary schools. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Elementary Education, Learning
Anderson, Lorin W. – Curriculum Report, 1980
To explore the relationship between time and school learning, this paper defines the three kinds of learning time identified by researchers--allocated time, time-on-task, and academic learning time--and relates them to curriculum development. The author cites evidence that time-on-task is related to student achievement and describes two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Mastery Learning

Walberg, Herbert J.; Tsai, Shiow-ling – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
To probe the association of reading achievement with factors in learning, the scores of 2,890 13-year-old students from a National Assessment of Educational Progress sample were regressed on 24 indexes of the factors, singly and as a set. Achievement showed diminishing or eventually negative returns to eight time variables. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Assessment, Junior High Schools, Multivariate Analysis
Graden, Janet; And Others – 1982
Studies of how children spend their time in school, how teachers' perceptions and student characteristics affect interactions and the use of time in classrooms, and how the concept of time relates to student achievement were reviewed in preparation for an investigation of the extent to which different groups of children have different learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation

Huitt, William G.; Segars, John K. – 1980
A review of research and proposed models on classroom processes allows identification of four key characteristics of effective classrooms in elementary and secondary education. The four characteristics encompass (1) teacher attention to student characteristics, including prior learning and learning styles; (2) congruence among the course goals,…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
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