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Do Small Classes Influence Academic Achievement? What the National Assessment of Educational Progress Shows. A Report of the Heritage Center for Data Analysis.
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Johnson, Kirk A. – 2000
This study used data from the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading examination to analyze the effect of class size on academic achievement. The NAEP is administered in 4th, 8th, and 12 grades to measure academic achievement in various fields. Besides providing data on academics, it offers information on student, teacher,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Elementary Secondary Education, National Competency Tests
The Downside to Small Class Policies.
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Johnson, Kirk A. – Educational Leadership, 2002
Questions positive effects of small classes on student achievement. Describes study using 1998 NAEP reading data to determine whether students in small classes do better than students in large classes. Finds that after controlling for several factors such as gender, students in small classes did no better in reading than students in large classes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education