Unengaging elementary classrooms

One of the largest studies ever done of United States classrooms (over 2,500 elementary classrooms) has found that

• elementary students spend over 90% of their time working alone or listening to the teacher (rather than, for example, working collaboratively with peers);

of instructional methods,’ and 3.4 for providing ‘evaluative feedback’

to students on their work.

The study’s findings are reported in this week’s Science magazine.