How Small Classes Benefit High School Students

NASSP Bulletin

Volumn 87, Issue 635, 2003, Pages 35-44

  Deutsch, Francine M ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992806328     PISSN: 01926365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019263650308763504     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Achilles, C. M. (2001). Base restructuring efforts on a long-term experimental evidence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 10-14.
2. Achilles, C. M., Finn,J. D., & Pate-Bain, H. (2002). Measuring class size: Let me count the ways. Educational Leadership, 59(5), 24-26.
3. Achilles, C. M., Kiser-Kling, K., Aust, A., & Owen, J. (1995). Success starts small (SSS): A study of reduced class size in primary grades orfully Chapter-i eligible school. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 18-22.
4. Addonizio, M. F., & Phelps, J. L. (2000). Class size and student performance: A framework for policy analysis. Journal of Education Finance, 26, 135-156.
5. Akerhielm, K. (1995). Does class size matter? Economics of Education Review, 14, 229-241.
6. Biddle, B. J., & Berliner, D. C. (2002). Small class size and its effects. Educational Leadership, 59(5), 12-23.
7. Bracey, G. W. (1999). Reducing class size: The findings, the controversy. Phi Delta Kappan, 8(1), 246-247.
8. Bourke, S. (1986). How smaller is better: Some relationships between class size, teaching practices, and student achievement. American Educational Research Journal, 23, 558-571.
9. Carter, R. D. (1996). Obstacles to the effective teaching of writing: A 20-year follow-up. NASSP Bulletin, 81(591), 57-61.
10. Ferguson, R. F. (1991). Paying for public education: New evidence on how and why money matters. Harvard Journal on Legislation, 28, 465-498.
11. Ferguson, R. F., & Ladd, H. F. (1996). How and why money matters: An analysis of Alabama schools. In H. R Ladd (Ed.), Holding schools accountable: Performance-based reform in education (pp. 256-298). Washington DC: Brookings Institution.
12. Finn, J. (1998). Class size and students at risk. Washington, DC: National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students, Office of Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.
13. Finn, J. (1999). Small classes have large benefits. High School Magazine, 6, 45-45.
14. Finn, J., & Achilles, C. M. (1999). Tennessee's class size study: Findings, implications, misconceptions. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21, 97-109.
15. Finn,J. D., Gerber, S. B., Achilles, C., & Boyd-Zaharias,J. (2001). The enduring effects of small classes. Teachers College Record, 103, 145-183.
16. Finn,J. D., Pannozzo, G. M., & Achilles, C. M. (in press). The “whys” of class size: Student behavior in small classes. Review of Educational Research.
17. Greenwald, R., Hedges, L. V., & Laine, R. D. (1996a). The effect of school resources on student achievement. Review of Educational Research, 66, 361-396.
18. Greenwald, R., Hedges, L. V., & Laine, R. D. (1996b). Interpreting research on school resources and student achievement: A rejoinder to Hanushek. Review of Educational Research, 66, 411-416.
19. Grissmer, D. (1999). Class size effects: Assessing the evidence, its policy, implications, and future research agenda. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21, 231-248.
20. Gursky, D. (1998). Class size counts. American Teacher, 82, 10-12.
21. Hanushek, E. A. (1996). A more complete picture of school resource policies. Review of Educational Research, 66, 397-409.
22. Holliday, W. G. (1992). Should we reduce class size? What the research really says. Science Teacher, 59, 14-17.
23. Jacobson, J. (2001). Sizing up small classes. Education Week, 20(24), 26-28.
24. Johnson, K. A. (2002). The downside to small class policies. Educational Leadership, 59(5), 27-29.
25. Johnston, J. M. (1989). Teacher perceptions of changes in teaching when they have a small class or and aide. Peabody Journal of Education, 67, 106-122.
26. Klonsky, M. (2002). How small schools prevent violence. Educational Leadership, 59(5), 65-69.
27. Krueger, A. B., & Whitmore, D. M. (2001). The effect of attending a small class in the early grades on college test-taking and middle school test results: Evidence from project STAR. Economic Journal, 111, 1-28.
28. McLaughlin, D., & Drori, G. (2000). School-level correlates of academic achievement: Student assessment scores in SASS public schools. Education Statistics Quarterly, 2, 62-65.
29. Meier, D. (1995). The power of their ideas. Boston: Beacon Press.
30. Miles, K.H., & Darling-Hammond, L. (1998). Rethinking the allocation of teaching resources: Some lessons from high performing schools. In W. J. Fowler, Jr. (Ed.), Developments in schoolfinance, 1997. Fiscal proceedings from the annual state data conference (July, 1997). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
31. Mosteller, F., Light, R. J., & Sachs, J. A. (1996). Sustained inquiry in education: Lessons from skill grouping and class size. Harvard Education Review, 66, 797-842.
32. Nye, B. A., Boyd-Zaharias,J., Fulton, B. D., & Wallenhorst, M. P. (1992). American School Board Journal, 179, 31-33.
33. Nyhan, R. C., & Alkadry, M. G. (1999). The impact of school resources on student achievement test scores. Journal of Educational Finance, 25, 211-228.
34. Pate-Bain, H., Achilles, C. M., Boyd-Zaharias, J., & McKenna, B. (1992). Class size does make a difference. Phi Delta Kappan, 74, 253-256.
35. Raimondo, H. J., Esposito, L., & Gershenberg, I. (1990). Introductory class size and student performance in intermediate theory courses. Journal of Economic Education, 21, 369-381.
36. Rice, J. K. (1999). The impact of class size on instructional strategies and the use of time in high school mathematics and science courses. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21, 215-229.
37. Robinson, G. E. (1990). Synthesis of research on the effects of class size. Educational Leadership, 47(7), 80-90.
38. Verstegen, D. A., & King, R. A. (1998). The relationship between school spending and student achievement: A review and analysis of 35 years of production function research. Journal of Educational Finance, 24, 243-262.
39. Wenglinsky, H. (1997). How money matters: The effect of school district spending on academic achievement. Sociology of Education, 70, 221-237.
40. Wenglinsky, H. (2000). How teaching matters: Bringing the classroom back into discussions of teacher quality. Report of Research Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from www.ets.org/research/pic/pir/html
41. Zahorik, J. A. (1999). Reducing class size leads to individualized instruction. Educational Leadership, 57(1), 50-53.