Modifying school calendars / timetables
Overview
- Influence: Modifying school calendars / timetables
- Domain: School
- Sub-Domain: Types of schools
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
- Influence Definition: This includes changing the school terms, semesters, vacation times, times of day for starting and closing school, block scheduling or various time spans for classes.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 77
- Number of students: 44,000
- Number of effects: 674
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.11
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell Collaboration | Fitzpatrick & Burns | USA | Single-track year-round education for improving academic achievement in US K-12 schools: Results of a meta-analysis. | 2019 | Year round schooling | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0.13 |
| Review of Educational Research | Cooper, Valentine, Charlton & Melson | USA | The effects of modified school calendars on student achievement and on school and community attitudes. | 2003 | Modified school calendar vs. traditional calendar | 47 | 44,000 | 644 | 0.09 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 77 | 44,000 | 674 | 0.11 | |||||