Editors:
- Provides a thorough review of the literature and a comprehensive analysis and clarification
- Reviews the evidence of time effects in international comparative assessment studies
- Discusses policy implications of the outcomes of the study
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book analyzes the productivity and effectiveness of a variety of time investments in education. It explores the methods used in education to optimize the time that students are exposed to learning content. Such methods include expanding official school time, optimizing “time on task”, providing homework assignments, and creating learning opportunities beyond lesson hours. The book presents a review of earlier reviews and meta-analyses, secondary analyses of international data sets, and new meta-analyses concerning the effects of instruction time, homework and extended learning, beyond official school time. It explores the concept of time as a condition to enhance student achievement and discusses methodological issues in separating “genuine” time effects from related facets of educational quality. The book shows that the dependence of time effects on the quality of content choice and delivery raises critical questions for both researchers and policy planners. It further showsthat sophisticated research designs are required to properly assess time effects, and that policy makers should be concerned about the bluntness of time as an instrument to enhance educational productivity.
Editors and Affiliations
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Management, University of Twente Dept. Educational Organization &, Enschede, The Netherlands
Jaap Scheerens
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Effectiveness of Time Investments in Education
Book Subtitle: Insights from a review and meta-analysis
Editors: Jaap Scheerens
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00924-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00923-0Published: 23 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00924-7Published: 15 August 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 157
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics