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Download full textHertling, Elizabeth; Leonard, Courtney; Lumsden, Linda; Smith, Stuart C. – Policy Report, 2000
This report is intended to help policymakers understand the benefits of class-size reduction (CSR). It assesses the costs of CSR, considers some research-based alternatives, and explores strategies that will help educators realize the benefits of CSR when it is implemented. It examines how CSR enhances student achievement, such as when the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Policy, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMacGregor, Jean, Ed.; Cooper, James L., Ed.; Smith, Karl A., Ed.; Robinson, Pamela, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume is a synthesis of interviews conducted with 48 teachers who are infusing their large classes (over 100 students) with small-group activities or are working explicitly to create student communities within large classes. The chapters are: chapter 1, "The Argument for Making Large Classes Seem Small" (James L. Cooper and Pamela…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Organization, Class Size, Large Group Instruction
Underwood, Siobhan; Lumsden, Linda S. – Research Roundup, 1994
The items featured in this annotated bibliography touch on several aspects of the multifaceted class-size debate. Allen Odden reviews the literature and contends that class-size reduction should be used "sparingly and strategically." C. M. Achilles and colleagues examines two different class-size situations and find student test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness
Gilbert, Sid – CSSHE Professional File, 1995
This paper reviews the research on the effects of class size on educational quality in higher education, and discusses the characteristics of the students and kinds of course organization that facilitate effective large-class teaching. It notes that while early research found that class size mattered, newer studies have shown that factors other…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, College Instruction, Competence
McLeod, Alan M., Ed. – Virginia English Bulletin, 1985
The articles in this journal issue (1) discuss involving students in various language arts activities that have peace as a theme, and (2) deal with literature for students from kindergarten through grade 12. Topics in the first part are as follows: peace education in the English classroom, the peaceful hero, understanding the language of peace,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Book Reviews, Childrens Literature, Class Size
