Saturday, November 8, 2014
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10:15 AM
Galisteo (Convention Center)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
How a student's classes are scheduled throughout the day is often determined by necessity, but can have a meaningful impact on academic performance. Acknowledging students' internal clocks and making small changes to scheduling patters could be a relatively low-cost method for administrators to improve performance. This paper builds on literature that has shown the negative effects of early morning classes to consider the influence the school-day schedule has throughout the day. Our data is five cohorts of college freshman at the United States Air Force Academy who face randomized scheduling and largely take a common set of classes. We find the largest impact of the schedule is in the early morning, but also find evidence of academic fatigue and asymmetric effects among STEM, non-STEM, and physical education courses that vary over the day.
Full Paper:
- StudentSchedules_usafa414.pdf (306.8KB)