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Jennifer E. Symonds; Ricardo Böheim; Matthew P. Somerville; Edward Baines; Xin Tang; Niamh Oeri; Raven Rinas; Florian Jonas Buehler; Gertraud Benke; Aisling Davies; Seaneen Sloan; Dympna Devine; Gabriela Martinez Sainz – Frontline Learning Research, 2025
This study used systematic observation to test the direct and moderating effects of class size on children's momentary behavioural engagement in learning. Data were collected with 632 children (50.6% girls) in 121 classrooms in 92 schools recruited into the Children's School Lives national cohort study of Irish primary schooling. The Observational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Class Size, Learner Engagement
McInerney, Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Class size and student achievement have been debated for decades. The vast amount of research on this topic is either conflicting or inconclusive. There are large and small scale studies that support both sides of this dilemma (Achilles, Nye, Boyd-Zaharias, Fulton, & Cain, 1994; Glass & Smith, 1979; Slavin, 1989). Class size reduction is a…
Descriptors: Class Size, Academic Achievement, Budgets, Statistical Analysis
Folmer-Annevelink, Elvira; Doolaard, Simone; Mascareno, Mayra; Bosker, Roel J. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2010
This paper addresses the relationship between class size and student-teacher interactions as an explanation for effects of class size on achievement. Observations were conducted in kindergarten and Grade 1 classes from 46 Dutch primary schools in order to address the effect of class size on the amount and type of student-teacher interactions. The…
Descriptors: Class Size, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Magnuson, Katherine A.; Ruhm, Christopher; Waldfogel, Jane – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
Using rich longitudinal data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K), we find that children who attended preschool enter public schools with higher levels of academic skills than their peers who experienced other types of child care (effect size of 0.14). This study considers the circumstances under which the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Reading Instruction, Outcomes of Education, Preschool Education