Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning

Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning
Author :
Publisher : UCL Press
Total Pages : 340
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781787358799
ISBN-13 : 1787358798
Rating : 4/5 (798 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning by : Peter Blatchford

Download or read book Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning written by Peter Blatchford and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over whether class size matters for teaching and learning is one of the most enduring, and aggressive, in education research. Teachers often insist that small classes benefit their work. But many experts argue that evidence from research shows class size has little impact on pupil outcomes, so does not matter, and this dominant view has informed policymaking internationally. Here, the lead researchers on the world’s biggest study into class size effects present a counter-argument. Through detailed analysis of the complex relations involved in the classroom they reveal the mechanisms that support teachers’ experience, and conclude that class size matters very much indeed. Drawing on 20 years of systematic classroom observations, surveys of practitioners, detailed case studies and extensive reviews of research, Peter Blatchford and Anthony Russell contend that common ways of researching the impact of class size are limited and sometimes misguided. While class size may have no direct effect on pupil outcomes, it has, they say, significant force through interconnections with classroom processes. In describing these connections, the book opens up the everyday world of the classroom and shows that the influence of class size is everywhere. It impacts on teaching, grouping practices and classroom management, the quality of peer relations, tasks given to pupils, and on the time teachers have for marking, assessments and understanding the strengths and challenges for individual pupils. From their analysis, the authors develop a new social pedagogical model of how class size influences work, and identify policy conclusions and implications for teachers and schools.


Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning Related Books

Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Peter Blatchford
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-12 - Publisher: UCL Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The debate over whether class size matters for teaching and learning is one of the most enduring, and aggressive, in education research. Teachers often insist t
Rethinking Class Size
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Peter Blatchford
Categories: EDUCATION
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Class Size Debate
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Blatchford, Peter
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-01 - Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"This is a very important book which may become a classic. The research study is remarkable in its magnitude, breadth and duration.... it is described in a form
How Learning Works
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Susan A. Ambrose
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-16 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Praise for How Learning Works "How Learning Works is the perfect title for this excellent book. Drawing upon new research in psychology, education, and cognitiv
Rethinking Reading Comprehension
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Anne P. Sweet
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-30 - Publisher: Guilford Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This practical book grows out of a recent report written by the RAND Reading Study Group (RRSG), which proposed a national research agenda in the area of readin