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Direct linkOECD Publishing, 2019
Decreasing class sizes, even by as little as one student, comes with a price tag. It is possible to "pay" for this increase by compensating with one of the other factors influencing the salary cost of teachers: lower teachers' salaries, less required instruction time for students or more teaching time for teachers. Across OECD countries…
Descriptors: Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Teacher Salaries, Time
Folger, John – 1989
This paper addresses three questions policymakers may have concerning the results of the Project STAR data. First, when reducing class size, is there a "turning point" at which class size reductions lead to increased gains in student achievement? Second, do small classes help low socioeconomic status "at risk" students more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedJohnson, Kirk A. – Educational Leadership, 2002
Questions positive effects of small classes on student achievement. Describes study using 1998 NAEP reading data to determine whether students in small classes do better than students in large classes. Finds that after controlling for several factors such as gender, students in small classes did no better in reading than students in large classes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
Bain, Helen Pate; And Others – 1988
Recent research suggests that small (1:15) classes in the primary grades improve a student's chance to obtain a solid educational foundation. Funding has proved a major hurdle to definitive class size research. Also, many class size studies are inconclusive, since few are longitudinal. Tennessee is weighing its burgeoning welfare and correctional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness
Download full textBingham, C. Steven – 1994
A reanalysis of norm- and criterion-referenced achievement test data from Tennessee's Student Teacher Achievement Ration Project builds on research utilizing class size and student achievement as an independent and a dependent variable, respectively. The study examined patterns of achievement among minority and white students in small, regular,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Rating, Black Students
Wilkins, William E. – 2002
This paper seeks to answer the question, "What is the relationship between student achievement and four variables often cited as solutions?" The selected variables are: (1) per-pupil expenditure; (2) class size; (3) teacher advanced training; and (4) teacher experience. Because supporters promote initiatives focusing on these variables,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
