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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 486952" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>There has been a lot of debate on this issue. Tennessee did a very good study on this, the ONLY long term study on the subject from what I have read. The other studies are analyses of other studies and conclusions drawn from that analysis - NOT from actually running the studies.</p><p></p><p>One thing we should note is that class size is very different than student to teacher ratio.</p><p></p><p>I have kids who have been in large, small, medium and very small (homeschooled 1:1 with different adults teaching diff subjects depending on their education/ability to teach that child).</p><p></p><p>I am a very firm believer that class size makes a difference. How big that difference is depends on a LOT of things. Class size is something that is debated so often and so heatedly because it is quantifiable and a guideline can be written and be enforced with much less ambiguity than other variables can be controlled.</p><p></p><p>From what I have read and observed and discussed with teachers and with other parents, class size has a big impact in the elementary grades, esp kindergarten through 3rd, and is less important after that. I still am very unhappy if one of my children is put into a class with more than 30 students. Large classes use up a lot of time with housekeeping and transitioning that really needs to be spent on academics.</p><p></p><p>By college I think that the quality of the teacher and the student's desire to learn plays more of a role than class size.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 486952, member: 1233"] There has been a lot of debate on this issue. Tennessee did a very good study on this, the ONLY long term study on the subject from what I have read. The other studies are analyses of other studies and conclusions drawn from that analysis - NOT from actually running the studies. One thing we should note is that class size is very different than student to teacher ratio. I have kids who have been in large, small, medium and very small (homeschooled 1:1 with different adults teaching diff subjects depending on their education/ability to teach that child). I am a very firm believer that class size makes a difference. How big that difference is depends on a LOT of things. Class size is something that is debated so often and so heatedly because it is quantifiable and a guideline can be written and be enforced with much less ambiguity than other variables can be controlled. From what I have read and observed and discussed with teachers and with other parents, class size has a big impact in the elementary grades, esp kindergarten through 3rd, and is less important after that. I still am very unhappy if one of my children is put into a class with more than 30 students. Large classes use up a lot of time with housekeeping and transitioning that really needs to be spent on academics. By college I think that the quality of the teacher and the student's desire to learn plays more of a role than class size. [/QUOTE]
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