Reducing Class Size

Argumentative Essay # 51970

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Reducing Class Size

A paper which argues that smaller size of classes, particularly in the initial years of elementary school, has a positive affect on the achievement of student.

1,438 words () | 6 sources | MLA | 2004 Pakistan

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that reducing class sizes in the initial years of a student's education have emerged to follow students all through their education level. It shows how these students graduate and move on to post-secondary education which is at higher rates as compared to their peers who had the experience of much larger class sizes.

From the Paper:

"Eventually the conclusion given by the researchers was that they were unable to reveal the effect of smaller class size on student achievement. Even though test scores increased, but the researchers were not able to attribute the increase to small class size. However, the near-universal reduction in class sizes made it tough for the researchers to find comparison groups in which size of class was not reduced.
Researchers at the same time made few other interesting findings. For instance, as the new law was so quickly implemented, it caused a strong and unprepared demand for new teachers. The result of which was that qualifications for teacher radically dropped, particularly in schools that served disadvantaged to students."