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District Resource Capacity and the Effects of Educational Policy: The Case of Primary Class Size Reduction in Ontario
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Mascall, Blair; Leung, Joannie – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
In a study of Ontario, Canada's province-wide Primary Class Size Reduction (PCS) Initiative, school districts' ability to direct and support schools was related to their experience with planning and monitoring, interest in innovation, and its human and fiscal resource base. Districts with greater "resource capacity" were able to…
Descriptors: Class Size, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Fiscal Capacity
Reclaiming Assessment through Accountability that Is "Just Right"
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Graue, Elizabeth; Johnson, Erica – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background: This article builds on three years of qualitative research on Wisconsin's Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program, a class size reduction policy in Wisconsin. Objective: In this article, we take a practice-oriented perspective on assessment, examining how assessments in schools that participated in a class size…
Descriptors: Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Standardized Tests
The Synergy of Class Size Reduction and Classroom Quality
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Graue, Elizabeth; Rauscher, Erica; Sherfinski, Melissa – Elementary School Journal, 2009
A contextual approach to understanding class size reduction includes attention to both educational inputs and processes. Based on our study of a class size reduction program in Wisconsin we explore the following question: How do class size reduction and classroom quality interact to produce learning opportunities in early elementary classrooms? To…
Descriptors: Class Size, Standardized Tests, Scores, Classrooms