Class size: does it matter for student achievement?

Class Size and Student Achievement.

Schooling has multiple purposes. In the long run, higher levels of schooling are associated with higher earnings and economic mobility, better health, lower mortality rates, and greater democratic participation. For these reasons, most societies require children to attend school for a specified number of years or until they reach a certain age. Many of the benefits of schooling occur in part be...

Relationships Between Class Size Reduction, New Teachers, and Student Achievement

In response to widespread dissatisfaction with its public schools, California has implemented a number of educational reforms over the past decade. Perhaps the most dramatic, and certainly the most costly, was the passage of the class size reduction (CSR) law in the summer of 1996. This legislation aimed to reduce average class size by roughly one-third, from 30 students to 20, in grades kinder...

Diabetes and pancreas size, does it matter?

Imaging studies of the pancreas provide valuable information on the pathophysiology of diabetes and direction of the clinical management. Comparative studies on the imaging and microscopic pathology will be required to validate the importance of the images.

Ldl Particle Size: Does It Matter?

Computer Based Assessments of Student Performance in Hybrid Classes: Does Class Size Really Matter?

This paper reports the relationship between student performances evaluated using computer-based assessment (CBA) tools in large (500+ students) and small (35 students) classes. While large classes allow an efficient use of limited university resources, they are sometimes perceived as diluting the richness of a small classroom learning process, resulting in poorer student performance. Computer-b...