Class Size Doesn’t Impact on Students’ Learning
Elaine Chen
Spring 2014
Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………… 2
Literature Review……………………………………………………………………… 3
Methodology…………………………………………………………………………… 4
Findings and Analysis………………………………………………………………… 5
Conclusions and Implications………………………………………………………… 6
Reference……………………………………………………………………………… 7
Appendix……………………………………………………………………………… 8
Introduction
How do you think that the students in the same class with the same teacher could get a huge difference grade, either in test/regent or class final grade? Currently I am pursuing a high school degree at Francis Lewis High School. I am doing the research for the finding of does the class size impact students’ learning or not. Throughout my work, I came up with surveys for students and teachers. In addition, according
to STAR (Finn, Gerber, Achilles, & Boyd Zaharias, 2001; Word et al., 1990), parts of
students in the New York City Public Schools
Literature Review
Based on my research, I focus on does class size has impact on students' learning performance or not. In order to understand exactly what the reasons behind my research are, and how it may benefit parents, students, and teachers, I have split my literature review in to following point: the research gaps,
Methodology
In order to get information and opinion from seniors student in Francis Lewis High School, I created a survey with my group for students. Even though some of the students did not take the survey seriously, most students did take it seriously and understand what the problems it, so we did get the real data for students' opinions. In the survey, I asked seniors how many classes they have, so I can get the basic idea of how many classed do seniors usually have. I also asked them that how many small classes they have, so we can understand did they really understand what are the differences between small classes and large classes....