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Abadzi, 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)
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Leach, David J.; Tunnecliffe, Michael R. – Australian Journal of Education, 1984
The influence of two time variables (allocated time and pupil time on task) was compared with the influence of two context variables (aptitude and socioeconomic status), on primary level mathematics achievement. Results showed that the time variables accounted for significantly more variance in achievement, with pupil time on task having the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Mathematics, Predictor Variables