Detailed diaries from two time use studies (1975-1981) were analyzed to examine how use of time on the job affects earnings. Additional time spent on breaks at work raises earnings, but not to the same extent as additional time spent working. Effects differed for union and nonunion workers. Eliminating breaks entirely would be counterproductive.…

Views time management as a pyramid with six distinct phases, offering these phases as steps to successful time management: (1) set goals; (2) rank goals; (3) schedule; (4) implement; (5) coordinate; and (6) manage daily events. Examines several areas for improvement in personal productivity, including desk arrangement, the telephone, interruptions…

A survey of 42 British MBA graduates and their mentors (40% response) revealed that mentoring was working well from both perspectives, but time pressures were a concern. Mentors needed awareness training and ongoing support. A process of comentoring emerged, in which discussion of mentors' work problems enabled them to receive listening support…

An examination of the level of time management skills found among 143 undergraduate business students led to development of a procedure to assess how well students allocate their time and identification of variables that determine time-budgeting effectiveness. (Author)

Studied time estimation for a button-pressing response in 3- and 5.5-year-olds under "minimal,""temporal," and "force" instructions. Found that force--but not temporal--instructions improved 3-year-olds' timing accuracy. When instructed to press harder, they pressed longer. Older children were more accurate with…

Revised estimates of the time married women spent in household work were made using data from the 1920s and 1960s. Results showed an overall decline from 7.35 hours per day in the 1920s to 6.31 hours in 1967-68. Household work by full-time homemakers declined by 7.5% to 6.84 hours per day; employed married women's household work declined to 5.13…

Addresses four common barriers to academic writing and publishing: identifying appropriate journals that might publish one's work; making time to write; organizing information and the writing process; and continuing productive writing while waiting to hear from a journal, and learning from rejection. (SV)

Demonstrates an application of a method for using growth curves to determine the timing of booster sessions to reinforce the cognitive messages or behavior changes of interventions. Uses data from a multisite randomized experiment that compared three counseling and testing methods for preventing sexual disease transmission. Presents…

By nose poking a lighted key, rats obtained food pellets on either a variable- interval schedule of reinforcement or a schedule that required an average of four additional responses after the end of the variable-interval component (a tandem variable-interval variable-ratio 4 schedule). With both schedule types, the mean variable interval was…

Do people tend to underestimate time when their attention is engaged? Studies supporting this idea have routinely confounded attentional manipulations with changes in other factors, such as response complexity and memory load. The aim of the present study was to obtain the first direct evidence that attentional engagement mediated by cortical…

Between holiday concerts and grades due, finding perfect presents and the rush to fit in required lessons, the few weeks before break can seem like a season of suffering rather than a season of cheer. In this article, the authors present several time-saving solutions for shortening a teacher's December to-do list.

This article presents some suggestions for helping students learn how to better manage their time. Much of this advice can help students in the secondary education establish habits that will benefit them in the postsecondary education or in the world of work. Students benefit by using an appointment calendar to keep track of all due dates,…

This article describes and illustrates a novel form of the changing criterion design called the distributed criterion design, which represents perhaps the first advance in the changing criterion design in four decades. The distributed criterion design incorporates elements of the multiple baseline and A-B-A-B designs and is well suited to applied…

Implementation of science curriculum materials has been a fundamental challenge in science education for decades. Policy researchers have argued that alignment of standards, curriculum, and assessment are the key to supporting implementation. This paper focuses on teachers' perceptions of curricular alignment and on curriculum implementation using…

Regardless of their roles as business owners, center directors, school principals, or teachers, educational leaders are expected to be organized, sensitive, and unflappable. So, deciding what to do and when to do it are key to their success in achieving program goals, promoting staff excellence, or providing family and community appreciation.…