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Chetty, Raj; Friedman, John N.; Hilger, Nathaniel; Saez, Emmanuel; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Yagan, Danny – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to different classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This paper evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR using administrative records. We obtain five results. First, kindergarten test scores are highly correlated with outcomes such as…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Small Classes, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten
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Hewitt, Jim; Brett, Clare – Computers & Education, 2007
This study analyzes the relationship between class size and student online activity patterns in a series of 28 graduate level computer conferencing courses. Quantitative analyses of note production, average note size, note opening and note reading percentages found a significant positive correlation between class size and mean number of notes…
Descriptors: Teleconferencing, Correlation, Class Size, Small Classes