Class Size Survey

Class Size Survey There all colleges all over the world and students attend these colleges with high goals and important aspirations. These colleges have class sizes ranging from around four students in one small class to around three hundred students in a lecture class. Most high schools’ largest classrooms tend to have no more than thirty-five students per class. This is interesting because high schools have smaller classrooms, but yet some colleges have large classrooms. This brings the question of class size into play. The question: does college class size really matter? is explored and questioned all over the world and I want to explore research articles and surveys in order to find the answer. If class size does matter, I also want to

These items were: size of class enrollment, course level, the "electivity" of the course, the particular subject matter of the course, and the time of day that the class was held. This article is a mass overview of all the research that has been done for relating class size and student achievement. This article states “Class size was often related to teacher and course evaluations, though not inevitably or necessarily very strongly so” (Feldman, 1984, p. 45). In this article, it is saying that class size does affect student achievement, but not much. This is important because if class size doesn’t affect student achievement much, then class size may not matter after all. Although this article is somewhat outdated, written in 1984, it still has some important key points in finding the answer to my research

This study explains that not all research studies analyzed class sizes over 40 students. In this study, 16, 203 test scores were analyzed. Out of all of the research studies, this has the most collected data, which will be extremely helpful. This article also gives background information about when class size became an issue and about the first people who studied class size. “Edmonson and Mulder (1924) were two of the first investigators to study class size and achievement” (Williams, Quinn, & Jensen, 1985, p. 307). This is good information to know because this topic has not even been researched for one hundred years and still, may not have a definite answer. In this study, small classes did better than large classes on quizzes, but on final exams they achieved about the same. This research study had very mixed results, but it was written in 1985, so there is more evidence today in