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The Issue Of Block Scheduling In Schools - Online Term Paper

The Issue Of Block Scheduling In Schools

Lately there seems to be talk about adapting a block schedule to Unit 5 High Schools. A typical block schedule is where students take two classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. These four class periods are all 90-minutes each. This way year long courses are cut to a semester and semester course to a marking period. Proponents of this schedule state many advantages to plan. Better grades, students learn more, more teacher- student interaction, more time for teacher planning, and less stress are a few of them. Though supporters for the block schedule say that it will improve education, I do not come to the same conclusion.
The most serious concern with block scheduling is the ...

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same amount as they would in a regular class time. As humans we tend to remember the things we do first (primacy) and the things we to last (regency). The time in the middles is sag time and is remembered at a much lower percentage. So basically you start our remembering a greater percentage of things in the beginning and as you move to the middle of your time period you remember a lower percentage. Then you remember more as you come from the middle to the most recent event. By lengthening the classes to ninety minutes you decrease the percentage learned because there are 50% less primacy and regency events occur and there is more sag time. Another problem is the spacing effect. In a block, classes are crammed into half the time. A study done showed the students who had instruction once a day for ten days remembered more than students who had instruction twice a day for five days. So in reality a block schedule does not promote more learning.
Less stress seems to be a big ...

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Added: 7/4/2006 06:18:12 AM
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