Block scheduling represents intensive single-subject chunks of specialized instructional periods, with pupils in class for up to 90 minutes -- the usual method of scheduling in high schools. This system is challenging the more familiar model of grouping elementary students by common grade level or e...
In the past decade, U.S. secondary schools have introduced a variety of alternative classroom schedules in efforts to increase student learning and achievement and other valued educational outcomes. A number of these alternative schedule arrangements have been labeled "block schedu...
Blocking student performance in high school? Block schedules have been used in several different high schools in various areas of the United States. Reasons for their use vary from better preparing st... WWH Jr - 《Economics of Education Review》 被引量: 16发表: 2004年 Five Elements Combine ...
Block Schedules. Secondary schools may elect to utilize a block schedule approved by the Superintendent and then by an affirmative vote of a majority of the professional employees within the building...
摘要: Presents a study which recommended school reform initiatives related to time management in U.S. schools. Block scheduling for student learning and instruction; Argument on the arrangement of instructional units; Participation of students to classroom projects....
NAEP-HSTS 2005 and NELS:88 data indicate, respectively, non-continuous enrollment in secondary mathematics results in lower mathematics achievement and decreases the odds of completing a bachelor's degree. Nationally, schools following 4脳4 block schedules (90-minute classes that meet daily for only...
These students had been instructed according to one of three schedules: the traditional 6- or 7- period day, the 4times4 block schedule, and the alternating day block schedule. The researcher found that despite students on the traditional schedule having significantly more time for instruction ...
Recommendations are provided for school administrators and faculty who are contemplating a transition to more innovative school schedules.关键词: alternative scheduling block scheduling instructional time academic achievement DOI: 10.1177/0192636506292382
students just have class every other day. This is possible under block scheduling which is the new way to organize a school day. Block scheduling has been a main cause of controversy in the United States. In order to understand block scheduling one must know the background, the pros, the ...
This study examined the effects of a tri-schedule on the academic achievement of students in a high school. The tri-schedule consists of traditional, 4x4 block, and hybrid schedules running at the same time in the same high school. Effectiveness of the schedules was determined from the state ...