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Download full textMacDonald, Susan Peck – 1979
Tentative results from a study of the writing improvement of college freshmen indicate that underlying linguistic competence can be released by exercises that allow students to use what they already know, that syntactic competence increases with maturity, and that complex pedagogic variables contribute to writing growth. Although a number of…
Descriptors: Growth Patterns, Higher Education, Sentence Combining, Small Classes
Lapsley, Daniel K.; Daytner, Katrina M. – 2001
Prime Time is a funding mechanism that allows Indiana school corporations to hire instructional assistants for K-3 classrooms with large enrollments. The goal is the establishment of a favorable student-teacher ratio. In the first evaluation of this program, researchers conducted a stratified random cluster survey of 680 K-3 teachers from across…
Descriptors: Class Size, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Paraprofessional School Personnel, Primary Education
Harman, Patrick; Egelson, Pauline; Hood, Art; O'Connell, Debbie – 2002
This study examined the impact of smaller class size on elementary student achievement, focusing on types of instructional strategies utilized, student time on task, academic focus of the classroom, and types of interactions between teachers and students and between students and students. Two long-term class size reduction sites in North Carolina…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education
Hargreaves, Linda; And Others – 1997
Given the failure of previous research to find consistent effects of class size on students' achievement, this study examined whether teachers in British elementary schools changed their behavior in ways conducive to learning when they worked with classes significantly smaller than average. Seven pairs of elementary school teachers judged as…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Sherman, Lawrence William – 1975
Innovations which were incorporated into large, introductory, educational psychology lecture classes are described and compared to smaller classes that did not make use of the innovations. Four innovative pedagogical techniques are used: (1) a mastery approach, (2) formative evaluation, (3) a modified pyramid-like structure using small group…
Descriptors: Class Size, Course Descriptions, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Innovation
Craig, Eleanor D.; And Others – 1977
The paper discusses an experiment in which regression analysis was used to examine predictors of information retention following a college economics course. It was hypothesized that students taught in small classes with self-instructional materials would place a higher value on basic economic concepts and retain these concepts longer than students…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Class Size, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis
