The Advantages and Disadvantages of Block Scheduling as Perceived by Middle School Students

Autor/inn/en	Kaya, Suat; Aksu, Meral
Titel	The Advantages and Disadvantages of Block Scheduling as Perceived by Middle School Students
Quelle	6 (2016) 1, S.50-59, Artikel 6 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2146-7463
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Middle School Students; Student Attitudes; Block Scheduling; Teacher Student Relationship; Teaching Methods; Attention; Grade 5; Grade 8; Cooperative Learning; Psychological Patterns; Age Differences; Turkey (Ankara) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Schülerverhalten; Block teaching; Blockunterricht; Stundentafel; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Aufmerksamkeit; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Kooperatives Lernen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Recently, the Turkish educational system has gone through a transition from the 8+4 educational model to the new 4+4+4 system, which has mandated elective courses to be taken by the students increasing number of class hours taken in a week from 30 to 37 hours. This has caused some problems in scheduling of schools in Turkey where double shift schooling is utilized in many schools due to some reasons. The purpose of this research was to examine perceptions of students regarding advantages of block scheduling. 240 students were selected through simple random sampling. The findings revealed that the block-scheduling had many advantages in terms of improvements in student-teacher relationship and teacher methodology, and some disadvantages in terms of attention span, concentration difficulty and basic needs. The perceptions of both the 5th grade students and the 8th grade students were similar regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the block scheduling. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/1/01