Class Size vs. Academic Performance

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attention for each student is more accessible. My first task is to see if this belief is true through analyzing of previous research and data. First year university students are generally in their 14th year of school. I will not only research data for university level education but begin with lower levels. Is it true that a small class is better at that level and if so, why? I will than do the same for university level education. I wish to see what or if, there is a correlation. By doing this, I can better anaylazez the results from university findings. Does small classes effect younger students? And do these results match with university level? Do these effects only exsist when a small class exsist or are the skills transferred from year to year? These are the questions I wish to anaylze. Through these results, I hope to not only discover what the optimal class size is but what possible short-term and long-term factors are behind the data. Understanding how class size affects ...

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K-3 in 79 schools took part. Project STAR “provides persuasive evidence that small classes had immediate effects on academic achievement” (Nye et al, 1999, p.127) and the effects of “small classes were found to be remarkably consistent across schools (Nye at al, 1999, p.128). A large gap between student achievement can be seen between small and large classes by the first grade. A reduction of class size causes “significantly larger (by two or three times) effects for minority students” (Ehrenberg at el, 2001, p.16). Recent analysis also shows that the benefits of being in a small class seems persist even after students have transitioned into a larger class. On top of that, Project STAR ...

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