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Download full textJennifer 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
Direct linkNewell, Sarah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
This essay explores the role of talk within the English classroom. Classroom talk (in its various forms) is not simply a method for sharing fixed systems of knowledge or information; it is the most useful mechanism for giving learners the space to develop new meanings and new ways of thinking about their surroundings. As soon as learners are…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dialogs (Language), Adolescents, Small Classes
Satterthwaite, James B. – Independ Sch Bull, 1970
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expository Writing, Individual Instruction, Instructional Materials
Collins, James L. – 1985
The report of the National Council of Teachers of English Task Force on Study of Class Size and Workload in Secondary English Instruction takes the position that class size should be studied by itself and also in conjunction with other variables. It also identifies subject matter and instructional design as types of variables combining with class…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
San Juan Unified School District, Carmichael, CA. – 1992
As a result of the Morgan-Hart Class Size Reduction Act of 1989, San Juan (California) Unified School District was able to reduce the number of students in freshman English classes from over 30 to 20 in the spring semester 1991. This reduction of at least 10 students per class was a welcome change for high school students and their teachers. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Educational Research
Class Size and Teacher Load in High School English. New York State English Council Monography No. 8.
Wade, Durlyn E. – 1964
To determine the class size and teaching load of secondary teachers of English in New York state, the Research Committee of the State English Council mailed 1,093 questionnaires to chairmen of English Departments in the state's registered public and private secondary schools. The 694 usable replies--representing 4,410 full-time English…
Descriptors: Class Size, English Instruction, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Noninstructional Responsibility
