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The Relative Influence of Research on Class-Size Policy
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Kim, James S. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2007
Social science research suggests that reducing class size has its largest effects on the achievement of minority and inner-city children during the first year of formal schooling. Despite scholarly disagreements about the implications of specific studies on class size, economists generally agree that targeted class-size policies rest on stronger…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Class Size, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Using Research Results on Class Size To Improve Pupil Achievement Outcomes.
Achilles, C. M.; Harman, Patrick; Egelson, Paula – Research in the Schools, 1995
Beginning in 1991-92, a local school district undertook a concerted effort to reduce class size in grades 1 through 3 to 1:15, the Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Project. Achievement gains and research indicated that class size caused increased achievement and facilitated improved instruction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Class Size, Instructional Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Some Findings from an Independent Investigation of the Tennessee STAR Experiment and from Other Investigations of Class Size Effects.
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Hanushek, Eric A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1999
Reviews Tennessee's Project Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) and puts the results in the context of other nonexperimental evidence about class size. Nonexperimental evidence does not support any achievement gains attributable to class-size reduction, and empirical evidence from STAR has design and implementation flaws that cast doubt on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Class Size and Student Achievement: Research-Based Policy Alternatives.
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Odden, Allan – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1990
Literature on the relation between class size and student achievement is reviewed, and policy alternatives are suggested. Class size reduction strategies, focusing on individual or small group tutoring, are proposed for primary and secondary instruction. Implementing these strategies requires ambitious staff development programs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Educational Improvement
The Political and Institutional Origins of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Elementary School Class Size: Tennessee's Project STAR.
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Ritter, Gary W.; Boruch, Robert F. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1999
Examines the origins of Tennessee's Project Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) and explores what it was about Tennessee in the mid-1980s that fostered the development of this experimental approach to class size. Highlights the connection between the research world and the political world that resulted in the STAR project. (SLD)
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational History, Educational Research, Elementary Education
"This," as Paul Harvey Was Wont To Say, "Is the Rest of the Story."
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Achilles, C. M.; And Others – 1996
A project conducted in Tennessee from 1984 through 1989, Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (Project STAR), serves as a context for a discussion of educational research. The decisions required in major research projects and the problems in carrying out research are seldom discussed in conferences that present research results as completed efforts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Databases, Decision Making
Bursting at the Seams: Report of the Citizens' Commission on Planning for Enrollment Growth.
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Fernandez, Ricardo R.; Timpane, P. Michael – 1995
The independent Citizens' Commission on Planning for Enrollment Growth for New York City has concluded that the school system is experiencing explosive enrollment growth, and that current strategies are incapable of dealing with this growth. The only way to forestall a crisis is to increase classroom space significantly. Given current demographic…
Descriptors: Building Plans, Class Size, Cooperation, Crowding