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Download full textHertling, Elizabeth; Leonard, Courtney; Lumsden, Linda; Smith, Stuart C. – Policy Report, 2000
This report is intended to help policymakers understand the benefits of class-size reduction (CSR). It assesses the costs of CSR, considers some research-based alternatives, and explores strategies that will help educators realize the benefits of CSR when it is implemented. It examines how CSR enhances student achievement, such as when the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Policy, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Underwood, Siobhan; Lumsden, Linda S. – Research Roundup, 1994
The items featured in this annotated bibliography touch on several aspects of the multifaceted class-size debate. Allen Odden reviews the literature and contends that class-size reduction should be used "sparingly and strategically." C. M. Achilles and colleagues examines two different class-size situations and find student test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness
Ellis, Thomas I. – Research Roundup, 1985
After a brief introduction identifying current issues and trends in research on class size, this brochure reviews five recent studies bearing on the relationship of class size to educational effectiveness. Part 1 is a review of two interrelated and highly controversial "meta-analyses" or statistical integrations of research findings on…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Correlation
