Using IBM's EPIC:SOCRATES as a vehicle, this paper examines the general work flow of a master schedule generator, the required and optional data necessary to drive such a system, the human methodology of linking data and controlling the system, and the actual algorithmic approach used by the computer. (Author)

The paper contains a model of a technique for increasing the quality of educational and instructional opportunity for all students. This model is developed around the flexible or modularly scheduled secondary school. Also included is a procedure containing a computer program, with which the administrator can develop the master schedule of the…

Describes a committee's efforts to revamp schedules to improve their high school's elective course options, provide equitable teacher-preparation time, and use instructional time productively. From three viable schedules (a four-period block, alternating-day schedule; a five-period trimester with a flexible period; and a modified trimester plan…

Microcomputer-managed examination scheduling at the University of Calgary (Canada) has two stages. The first uses mathematical methods to create a timetable that is conflict-free, uses a minimum number of periods, and minimizes the number of students with multiple exams in one day. An interactive stage allows the examination officer to accommodate…

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.…

The ways in which time is utilized can be enhanced through careful management. The time to be allocated to various activities and objectives should be planned on a weekly basis in light of consciously set priorities. Commonly used but rarely useful strategies for time management include working faster and working longer, both of which lead to…

Innovative lesson plans for handicapped students. (CK)

This article is based upon a dissertation submitted to the University of New Mexico in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. (MH)

Shows that special repertoires shaped by differential reinforcement schedule history affect the very young child's ability to learn to withhold and to space responses in a free operant, temporal discrimination task. (MH)

Commonly entitled off-campus classes, instructors bring non-credit classes to senior citizen complexes, community centers, apartment and co-op complexes." (Author)

To avoid the loss of learning caused by the usual week's time-gap between adult evening classes, Lutterworth Community College offered an intensive French course, meeting four evenings a week for two hours. (EB)