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Chingos, Matthew M. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
Schools across the United States are facing budgetary pressures on a scale not seen in generations. Times of fiscal exigency force policymakers and education practitioners to pay more attention to the return on various categories of public investment in education. The sizes of the classes in which students are educated are often a focus of these…
Descriptors: Class Size, Budgeting, Educational Policy, Educational Finance
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Robinson, Glen E. – Educational Leadership, 1990
Although class size reductions are often proposed as a way to improve student learning, research does not indicate that smaller classes will necessarily produce improved student achievement. Class size effects on student learning vary by grade, pupil characteristics, subject area, teaching method, and other learning interventions. References…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
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Finn, Jeremy D. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2002
Summarizes research findings on a Tennessee experiment in small classes for primary grades--Project STAR (Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio)--and on similar projects in other states. Discusses effects on student achievement and classroom discipline, effects of small classes versus larger classes with teacher aide, costs, long-term impacts, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Educational Research
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Folger, John – Peabody Journal of Education, 1989
Discusses Project STAR, a four-year study of class size reduction on student achievement in the early elementary grades. The paper reviews research on class size, puts Project STAR in context, describes its design and introduces several articles noting research implications for policy debate about class size. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education
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Mosteller, Frederick – Future of Children, 1995
Discusses research (Tennessee Study of Class Size) that determined the effects of smaller class size in the earliest grades on short- and long-term pupil performance. The 4-year study assessed the performance of over 6,500 students who attended K-3 classrooms having differing numbers of students and found evidence of short- and long-term benefits…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
McCluskey, Neal – 2002
"Smaller is better" is often the mantra of school leaders with regard to class size, while the benefits of smaller schools are ignored. Benefits of small classes seem obvious--teachers with fewer students could devote more time to each student. Conducted in 1985-89, Tennessee's Project STAR (Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio) found that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Change, Educational Environment