0 the period of time each year when people attend school, college, or university, usually starting in September: --
Individual language knowledge and use is examined in seven two hour sessions, spread over the academic year.
The course ran for the whole of an academic year.
Intervention began in the spring of that academic year and continued throughout the following academic year, when boys were in either fifth or sixth grade.
Absence was allowed on ten mornings during each of the two terms of the academic year.
Each year, information from school districts on children's adaptation to school was obtained for the academic year prior to camp.
One local authority, for example, required evidence of movement of at least two-thirds of a level within an academic year.
All assessments were administered within a 6-week period in the middle of the academic year.
Naturalistic observations were carried out in the two classrooms over a 10-week period during the spring semester of the academic year.