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Conaway, Chad; De Jong, David; Curtin, Susan; Strouse, Gabrielle; Degen, Dustin – Education Leadership Review, 2020
Identifying an appropriate class size is an important decision public schools face as they weigh balancing their budget with the impact class size may have on student achievement. This study examined perceptions of South Dakota kindergarten through third-grade teachers, elementary principals, and superintendents concerning optimal class size and…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Superintendents
Sohn, Kitae – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
Understanding the effects of class size reduction (CSR) has been an enduring issue in education. For the past 3 decades, Project STAR has stimulated research and policy discussions regarding the effects of CSR on a variety of outcomes. Schanzenbach (2007) reviewed STAR studies and concluded that small classes improved student academic outcomes.…
Descriptors: Class Size, Small Classes, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
Chingos, Matthew M. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
Schools across the United States are facing budgetary pressures on a scale not seen in generations. Times of fiscal exigency force policymakers and education practitioners to pay more attention to the return on various categories of public investment in education. The sizes of the classes in which students are educated are often a focus of these…
Descriptors: Class Size, Budgeting, Educational Policy, Educational Finance
Gagne, Jeff – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2012
Most states nationwide have had policies for several decades that limit the number of students assigned to public K-12 classrooms. Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states, led by Tennessee and Texas, spearheaded this effort in the 1980s, and SREB's own "Legislative Briefings" have marked the growth of class-size policies across…
Descriptors: Class Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Educational Policy
Watson, Kevin; Handal, Boris; Maher, Marguerite – Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
A consistent body of research shows that large classes have been perceived by teachers as an obstacle to deliver quality teaching. This large-scale study sought to investigate further those differential effects by asking 1,119 teachers from 321 K-12 schools in New South Wales (Australia) their perceptions of ideal class size for a variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Achilles, Charles M. – NCPEA Publications, 2012
This brief summarizes findings on class size from over 25 years of work on the Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) randomized, longitudinal experiment, and other Class-Size Reduction (CSR) studies throughout the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Great Britain, and elsewhere. The brief concludes with recommendations. The…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Class Size, Small Classes, Dropout Rate
Shin, Yongyun; Raudenbush, Stephen W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2011
This article addresses three questions: Does reduced class size cause higher academic achievement in reading, mathematics, listening, and word recognition skills? If it does, how large are these effects? Does the magnitude of such effects vary significantly across schools? The authors analyze data from Tennessee's Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio…
Descriptors: Small Classes, Correlation, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Whitehurst, Grover J.; Chingos, Matthew M. – Brookings Institution, 2011
Class size is one of the small number of variables in American K-12 education that are both thought to influence student learning and are subject to legislative action. Legislative mandates on maximum class size have been very popular at the state level. In recent decades, at least 24 states have mandated or incentivized class-size reduction…
Descriptors: Class Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Small Classes, Performance Factors
Ceci, Stephen J.; Konstantopoulos, Spyros – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Many studies have shown the benefits of smaller class sizes--including random experiments like the Student Teacher Achievement Ratio Project conducted in 79 elementary schools in Tennessee, which assigned children to either small or regular-size classes, as well as large-scale analyses of small and large classrooms that have occurred naturally.…
Descriptors: Class Size, Achievement Gains, Small Classes, Academic Achievement
Nye, Barbara A.; And Others – American School Board Journal, 1992
Four years of research in Tennessee involving more than 6,000 students each year demonstrate that smaller classes can provide substantial gains in student achievement, especially in the early grades. Lists 10 information sources about the effects of class size on student learning. (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Primary Education, Small Classes

Nye, Barbara; Hedges, Larry V.; Konstantopoulos, Spyros – Journal of Educational Research, 2001
Used data from Tennessee's Project STAR, a longitudinal class size experiment, to study the cumulative effects of reduced class size in the early grades on academic achievement. Results indicated that controlling for achievement in the previous year, small classes in grades 1-3 yielded statistically significant additional positive effects on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Elementary Education, Small Classes
Blatchford, Peter; Russell, Anthony; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Martin, Clare – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
There is still little consensus on whether and how teaching is affected by small and large classes, especially in the case of students in the later primary years. This study investigated effects of class size on teaching of pupils aged 7-11 years. We used a multimethod approach, integrating qualitative information from teachers' end-of-year…
Descriptors: Small Classes, Students, Class Size, Classroom Environment
Achilles, C. M.; Krieger, Jean D.; Finn, J. D.; Sharp, Mark – 2003
Small classes in grades K-3 boost student academic performance in all subjects and in prosocial behavior. Results are both short- and long-term. One study explored the theory that a major cause behind improved academic achievement involves improved student behavior, which increases student engagement in the classroom. Two other studies provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Primary Education, Small Classes
Bain, Helen Pate; Achilles, C. M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
The education reform movement has fostered renewed interest in class size. Tennessee and Indiana experiments with smaller class size in primary grades have yielded improved student behavior and achievement scores. Tennessee's new Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio Project (STAR) is a longitudinal study furthering research on small class benefits.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Class Size, Instructional Innovation, Primary Education
Nye, B. A.; Achilles, C. M.; Boyd-Zaharias, J.; Fulton, B. D.; Wallenhorst, M. P. – Research in the Schools, 1994
The Lasting Benefits Study is following up the effects of small class size on the achievement of elementary school students in Tennessee's Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio Project (Project STAR). Results show improved achievement for participants in small classes up through grade 3 that last at least through grades 4 and 5. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Elementary Education, Followup Studies