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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

"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