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Jiuquan Yang (???) – ECNU Review of Education, 2024
The transformation of China's education reform from extensive to connotative development involved a shift from characteristically exogenous and late development to endogenous and spontaneous development. The mechanism behind the shift from rationalism to universalism has resulted in tension between extension and intension in the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Practices
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Jennifer E. Symonds; Ricardo Böheim; Matthew P. Somerville; Edward Baines; Xin Tang; Niamh Oeri; Raven Rinas; Florian Jonas Buehler; Gertraud Benke; Aisling Davies; Seaneen Sloan; Dympna Devine; Gabriela Martinez Sainz – Frontline Learning Research, 2025
This study used systematic observation to test the direct and moderating effects of class size on children's momentary behavioural engagement in learning. Data were collected with 632 children (50.6% girls) in 121 classrooms in 92 schools recruited into the Children's School Lives national cohort study of Irish primary schooling. The Observational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Class Size, Learner Engagement
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Siyu Yu; Xiaoyue Zhang; Rong Tao; Wanyu Huang; Jiangsheng Chen; Xieyu Xiao – SAGE Open, 2025
This study explores the relationship between seating quadrants and student performance, including the role of classroom type in the quadrant effect. Data collected from 131 classes taught at 17 colleges of Northwest A&F University in China were analyzed using the ordinary least squares method. The results revealed that where a student sat in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Class Size, Large Group Instruction
Cui, Xu; Zhang, Zhenglei; Sun, Lei – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
Higher Vocational Education is one of the most important educational forms. But in the course of implementation of Higher Vocational Education, we find three inevitable questions: Higher Vocational Educational system's length of schooling which is only three years is too short; the differences in personality of teachers affect the teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Small Classes, Large Group Instruction
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Galton, Maurice; Pell, Tony – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This paper describes changes which took place in 37 Hong Kong primary schools where class sizes were reduced from 38 to between 20 and 25. Chinese, English and mathematics classes were observed over three years from Primary 1 (aged 6) to Primary 3. For 75% of observations no child was the focus of the teacher's attention in large classes. Reducing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Class Size, Teaching Methods
Kumar, Karuna – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1992
Classroom interaction data from traditional and activity-based English classes of different sizes are compared in terms of opportunities for learners to interact meaningfully. Findings suggest that the nature of the teaching-learning activities and the teacher's role and attitude influence learner participation more than class size. (24…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries