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Download full textChard, Sylvia C. – 1990
The Educational Reform Act (ERA) of 1988 reflects the most comprehensive restructuring of education in Britain in this century. This paper discusses the implementation of the National curriculum, the innovation at the heart of the ERA. The first part of the paper offers the views of educational commentators on changes resulting from this law.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, British National Curriculum, Class Size, Curriculum Evaluation
Bain, Helen Pate; Jacobs, Roseanne – 1990
Effects of teacher-pupil ratio on kindergartners' mastery of reading readiness objectives were studied. The study was part of Tennessee's Project STAR, a 4-year study of class size. About 2,850 students in 38 elementary schools that served 4 types of communities: innercity, suburban, urban, and rural, in 26 Tennessee school systems participated.…
Descriptors: Attendance, Basic Skills, Class Size, Economically Disadvantaged
Walsh, Marian; Kompf, Michael – 1990
The paper reports on a survey of 800 members of parent, teacher, and administrator organizations to identify present practices regarding the integration of exceptional students in Ontario public schools. Responses were received from 415 individuals. The questionnaire seeks data about the effects of the Education Amendment Act, 1980, which mandated…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Class Size, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems
Word, Elizabeth; And Others – 1990
This document provides the final summary report of Tennessee's primary school class size study, called Project STAR. Sections of the report concern: (1) background; (2) organization to conduct the study; (3) sample selection; (4) data collection plan and data base; (5) general operating guidelines; (6) teacher orientation; (7) study design; (8)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Practices
Fitzgerald, Nicholas B.; Hunt, Rodney K. – 1985
Reductions in the funding of compensatory education along with observed discrepancies in per-pupil cost among equally effective schools created a compelling case for the study of the determinants of cost-effective Chapter 1 programs in the state of Minnesota. Cost-effectiveness (CE) indexes for Chapter 1 reading and math services reflected a ratio…
Descriptors: Class Size, Compensatory Education, Consolidated Schools, Cost Effectiveness
Foster, Susan; Elliot, Lisa – 1986
Twenty students were interviewed after transferring to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) from colleges that offered no specialized programs for hearing-impaired students. The students reported that previous teachers were not aware of their learning needs, reading materials were difficult to comprehend, classes were too large and…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Choice, College Programs, College Students
McCarthy, Frederick J. – 1989
In 1988, Jefferson Community College (JCC) initiated this series of brief institutional research reports to alert the campus community regarding information about itself. The first six issues present selected findings from JCC students' responses to a statewide student opinion survey. The survey, which included both standardized and JCC-specific…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Class Size, Community Colleges, Day Care Centers
Herr, Kay – 1984
A practical reference guide for educators who teach large classes is presented, based on a workshop on improving teaching and learning in large classes. The workshop involved weekly meetings for a year at Colorado State University. The following problems of teaching and learning in large classes were identified: social and physical control, class…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Class Size, Classroom Environment, College Instruction
Morrison, Sherry B.; Oxford, Rebecca L. – 1978
This paper reports on an investigation of the interdependent relationship between ecological classroom dimensions and kindergarten students' task-related classroom behaviors, studied independently of personalities or age-group generalizations. Major purposes of the study were: (1) to identify and describe the main action structures observed in the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Class Size
Holloway, Robert E. – 1978
This study investigated the characteristics of an innovative cooperative high school-college program as perceived by principals of adopting and nonadopting schools. The data from survey questionnaires with 24 Likert-type items were reduced to six factors: observability, status, simplicity, cost, trialability, and relative…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), Class Size
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1981
The 11 items in this annotated bibliography are entries in the ERIC system concerning studies of school effectiveness and the debate surrounding how much influence schools have over student learning. Several articles included reexamine the 1966 Coleman report, and one compares a more recent Coleman report with the earlier report. A number of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Size
Costello, Francis J. – 1977
Since the administrative evaluation of faculty at the University of New Haven has been hampered by the faculty's distrust of student input, this study aimed to improve the faculty's confidence in student evaluations of instruction. A student evaluation of instructors was statistically compared to grades issued by the instructors, and to class…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, College Students, Evaluation Methods
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Office of Institutional Research and Analysis. – 1979
Fall 1979 student registration data for the seven Hawaii community colleges were examined to determine faculty teaching load as measured by average semester hours taught, average hours in contact with students, and average class size. The study revealed that Fall 1979 enrollment was slightly higher than the previous Fall's; that there were…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Enrollment
Edmonds, Edward L.; Bessai, Frederic – 1979
The purpose of this study was to obtain a descriptive profile of Canadian teachers in their first year of service. A questionnaire comprised of five sections was sent to beginning teachers. The document presents information gathered from this questionnaire on the following topics: biographical information and details on teachers' qualifications…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Class Size, Educational Environment, Educational Problems
PIVNICK, ISADORE – 1967
THIS OUTLINE BRIEFLY SUMMARIZES THE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROJECTS FUNDED UNDER TITLE I OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT DURING 1966-67 AND PRESENTS THE PROPOSED PROJECTS AND COMPONENTS FOR 1967-68. THERE ARE PROPOSALS FOR PREKINDERGARTEN CENTERS, A PROJECT TO LOWER PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO AND CLASS SIZE IN PRIMARY GRADES, INSERVICE…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Class Size, Compensatory Education, Elementary Schools
