Comments on: Class Culture, Not Size, Matters http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/06/20/class-culture-not-size-matters/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:46:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Urban Angle http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/06/20/class-culture-not-size-matters/#comment-4167 Urban Angle Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:19:14 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=528#comment-4167 <strong>Class Size Won’t Matter...</strong> Well-behaved students are capable of learning even in extraordinarily large classroom situations. If it weren’t for the paperwork involved in grading, most of my honors and IB courses could have been 10 students larger. In college, introductory l... Class Size Won’t Matter…

Well-behaved students are capable of learning even in extraordinarily large classroom situations. If it weren’t for the paperwork involved in grading, most of my honors and IB courses could have been 10 students larger. In college, introductory l…

]]> By: Robert Pondiscio http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/06/20/class-culture-not-size-matters/#comment-4166 Robert Pondiscio Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:42:25 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=528#comment-4166 Hi, EW. When research reinforces my classroom experience, it's exhilirating. This sounds like one of those times. Lazear's findings, as you describe them, make all the sense in the world. Thanks for the tip! Robert Hi, EW. When research reinforces my classroom experience, it’s exhilirating. This sounds like one of those times. Lazear’s findings, as you describe them, make all the sense in the world. Thanks for the tip!

Robert

]]> By: eduwonkette http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/06/20/class-culture-not-size-matters/#comment-4164 eduwonkette Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:04:18 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=528#comment-4164 Hi Robert, Though I didn't click over and read the article, one way of reading her argument is that size matters more for poorly behaved students, a point that's been made to explain conflicting findings in the class size literature: Edward Lazear, an economist at Stanford Business School, used this idea - that the ideal class size for learning varies by the behavior/attention span of the students - to explain the conflicting findings in class size research. The trouble is that observational studies - i.e. studies using data from the real world - are mixing together the effects of class size on very different kinds of kids. In a very nice theoretical paper, he concludes that class size matters - but that the effect of class size reduction on learning varies by the behavior of the students in it. More on this over here:http://eduwonkette2.blogspot.com/2007/12/bonus-prize-more-thoughts-on-class-size.html Hi Robert,

Though I didn’t click over and read the article, one way of reading her argument is that size matters more for poorly behaved students, a point that’s been made to explain conflicting findings in the class size literature:

Edward Lazear, an economist at Stanford Business School, used this idea - that the ideal class size for learning varies by the behavior/attention span of the students - to explain the conflicting findings in class size research. The trouble is that observational studies - i.e. studies using data from the real world - are mixing together the effects of class size on very different kinds of kids. In a very nice theoretical paper, he concludes that class size matters - but that the effect of class size reduction on learning varies by the behavior of the students in it.

More on this over here:http://eduwonkette2.blogspot.com/2007/12/bonus-prize-more-thoughts-on-class-size.html

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