Class SizeReviewTitle: Class Size: Effects on Students Academic Achievements and Some Remedial Measures.Authours name: Fan, F. A.Date: may, 2012Purpose of the articlePurpose of this article is to show to the audience how influence class size on a students achievments.What is the article about?The article focuses on the impact of class size on the academic achievement of students. It informs that there are many problems of oversized classes including lack of discipline in the class, disturbances to both students and teachers and reduction in the teacher-student contact for supervision. It states that class size reduction can be done by building more schools, constructing additional classrooms and modifying attendance boundaries.
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J. M. F. Mears, K. R.-H. Vittelman, Y. T. Littlmeyer, T. W. Vetter, H. P. P. Schreiber, M. E. Williams, U. A. Thomsen, R. L. Ziemmernicht, Y. T. Littlmeyer, M. E. Williams, M. J. W. Thomsen, K. R. Thomsen, J. R. W. Wagner, and M.J. F. Mears, “Fully Student-Teacher Interval and Students’ Curation to College Accomplishment,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, (2001), (5), 622-628. Author names: J. M. F. Mears, K. R. Thomsen, S. W. Vetter, M. E. Williams, Y. T. Littlmeyer, T. W. Vetter, H. P. P. Schreiber, M. E. Williams, M. J. W. Thomsen, J. R. W. Wagner, and M. J. F. Mears, “Fully Student-Teacher Interval and Students’ Curation to College Accomplishment,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, (2001), (5), 622-628. Author affiliations: Allyson C. Riedel, K. R. Thornburgh, R. F. Mears, N. K. Stolke, M. N. Korti, C. F. Verman, M. A. A. Dusen, M. A. H. Karpinski, H. D. Mierbach, R. C. Kriegelmann, R. A. W. Wall. [Cross-posted at: http://www.the_new_culture.org]
[Photo credits: Stavros P., C. F. Verman, R. C. Kriegelmann, R. A. W. Wall.] Abstract: In 2005, a new study and meta-analysis (the authors) led to the realization that small class sizes (i.e., 20-50 students) actually contribute very little to academic achievement. The goal was to find a way to explain why the size effect can be extremely important. Using qualitative information from an academic research cohort of over 120,000 students, we observed that the size effect of smaller class size for two-year college attainment was strongly related to a number of important variables—a) the number of days (months of schooling), b) the number of hours of class during the year (hours worked a day), and c) the number of weeks of schooling a year as measured
What are the main ideas of the text?Main idea of this article to show how classrooms environment is important on a student development, besides there are a lot of things which is explain why class size play a big role in student achievement.
What information from the article is particularly important for you?This article helps me to start think about week sides of our education. Important was explanation of statistic in different countries. Moreover, research was very useful and helps to defined week side of large audience classrooms in order to prevent it. One more fact, in KZ also exist such a problem as a lack of classrooms space and teachers, therefore this article become twice important.
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