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ERIC ED466009: Evaluating the Impact of California's Class Size Red... |
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This report reviews data generated during the first 3 |
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years of California's Class Size Reduction (CSR) |
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implementation. It focuses on a subpopulation of students |
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who have had anywhere from zero to 3 years of reduced |
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class-size experience, beginning in the first, second, or |
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third grades, with some having returned to large classes |
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in the fourth grade. The analysis is based on complete |
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student, classroom, and teacher records from 15,267 third- |
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and fourth-grade students in 546 classrooms from 72 |
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schools in 7 southern California school districts. The |
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data include reading, mathematics, and language test |
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scores from the Stanford Achievement Test, as well as 36 |
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variables covering student demographics, school |
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assignments, classroom contexts, and teacher |
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characteristics. The review found that since CSR was |
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fully implemented the children first given exposure to |
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smaller classes were not a representative sample of |
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California's public school children. Positive |
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achievements in mathematics accompanied CSR students, |
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whereas language arts and reading showed trivial |
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improvement. The report cautions that it is difficult to |
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assess CSR's impact for a number of reasons, particularly |
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the fact that CSR was initiated in concert with many |
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other reforms, making it impossible to assess which |
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changes resulted in student gains. Detailed information |
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on the study sample is provided. (Contains 44 references, |
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7 tables, and 3 figures.) (RJM) |
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Date Published: 2016-01-14 03:42:24 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED466009 |
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Item Size: 40324792 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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