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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It's estimated that something like 30% of your child's day is spent in time off task[/b]. So if your school runs 6 hours of which 4 hours of that is spent in reading/writing/and math and almost a third of that is spent in time off task, that gives an individual kid in a room with 25 other kids somewhere around 2.75 hours of on task learning for reading and language arts.

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http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2014/05/on_task_attention.html

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1.  They considered a child off task if a child was not directing his/her eyes at the instructor or the activity.  That could happen anywhere since that is such a broad definition of "off task."

2.  They observed each classroom 3-4 times for an hour each.  That's a huge extrapolation then to the entire school day to arrive at the percentages.

3.  71% of the total children observed were on task

4.  29% of the children were off task (not 29% of the time all children were off task as you described).  Here is the full study:  http://www.columbia.edu/~rsb2162/Godwinetal_v12.pdf, read under RESULTS  "Consistent with prior research, children were largely on
task: 71% of children’s observed behaviors were on-task."

So the truth is that the vast majority (7 out of 10) kids were on task during the observations AND those that were deemed off task were those that might not have his/her eyes on the instructor for 20+ seconds.  [/quote]

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