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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
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
Ziegler, Suzanne – Connections, 1997
This report addresses some of the concerns surrounding smaller classes and looks at whether reduced class sizes result in higher achievement levels, and concludes that it in fact does increase student achievement, so long as classes do not exceed 17 students. But many critics question whether the high cost of reducing classes to 17 or fewer…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Correlation
Achilles, C. M.; Kiser-Kling, Karen; Aust, Ann; Owen, Jean – 1995
As poverty, dysfunctional families, and special needs continue to affect students, educators seek improved ways to start children in formal education. One such approach is to lower the teacher-to-pupil ratios, and recent research shows that this method positively influences pupil achievement. How the process works is not well understood. To fill…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
Blatchford, Peter; Bassett, Paul; Goldstein, Harvey; Martin, Clare – British Educational Research Journal, 2003
Despite evidence from the USA that children in small classes of less than 20 do better academically there is still a vociferous debate about the effects of class size differences in schools, and considerable gaps in our understanding of the effects of class size differences. This article summarises results from the most complete UK analysis to…
Descriptors: Small Classes, Observation, Time Management, Academic Achievement
Public Policy Institute of California, 2002
This research brief summarizes a report by Christopher Jepsen and Steven Rivkin, "Class Size Reduction, Teacher Quality, and Academic Achievement in California Public Elementary Schools" (2002) [ED497298]. Intuitively, class size reduction is a good idea. Parents support it because it means that their children will receive more…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Teacher Characteristics, School Districts, Academic Achievement