Overpopulated Class:
A Menace towards Concrete Learning Outcomes and Student Achievement.
Earning a degree and applying the knowledge learned in college are some of the motivations that drive students to finish their chosen course. Each year, a great population has been expected to enter college because of the numerous high school grads across Negros Oriental. However, unforeseen circumstances are being encountered by most of our college students nowadays. Coping up with the demands of the subject course, catching up with the deadlines of submission, and more at a day might result to students’ poor performance in school. On the other hand, instructors and professors find it hard to accommodate a large class size in less than two hours. This leads to the argument that
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This can be vividly projected in public schools in Negros Oriental. Holding a population of around fifty students and above can cause problems when it comes to student performance and assessment and learning outcomes. Due to large class sizes, language teachers feel that there are several pedagogical issues that are weakened at times. This includes difficulties in speaking, reading, and writing tasks; difficulties with monitoring and giving feedback; problems at individualizing work; avoidance of tasks that are demeaning to implement; difficulty getting around the classroom; and poor attention of students. The flow of papers and essays for language teachers specifically is enormous and never-ending (Risley, 1994). As a result, teachers will not read the whole paper and cannot provide the necessary corrections to the students. Students also expect that their papers are correct and will repeat the mistake for the next writing task. The knowledge of grammar and sentence construction cannot be honed because of the leakage between the teachers’ guidance and the students’