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Student Name: WANG WEIJIE

What effect does school class size have on academic

achievement? Discuss

Nowadays, within the development of modern society, a considerable number

of countries are eking to develop their own education to increa their

academic achievement. That is why education needs reform. Small class

teaching organizational form of teaching is becoming the new trend of reform.

In recent years, small-class education have more than a dozen widely

implemented in the US, the UK and other developed countries.(Ehrenberg

et .al. 2001). Therefore, I will discuss the impact of small size class on

academic achievement .

Firstly， It is commonly believed that, as class size is large, communication

between teachers and students become weak. Moreover, if a large number of

students in class, the individual differences between students should be

greater. Then, teacher will manage the class difficulty. For students, learning

in large class, discussion and communication rate will be reduced. Lack of

group discussion, this is not conducive to student interest in learning.

Converly, when fewer than 25 students in the class, students can conduct

minar which could discuss academic issues in a timely manner, and given

their point of view.

Secondly, small class education is an effective way to teach students in

accordance with their aptitude. Compared with the traditional large-class

teaching, in teaching time, as class size reduction, the workload of teachers

should be reduced. They would have a lot of time to analyze the personality

characteristics of students for individual instruction. Admittedly, small class

teaching can take a variety of teaching methods to stimulate student interest

in acquiring knowledge and skills.

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Student Name: WANG WEIJIE

To sum up, small class really emphasizes the students have dominant

position in class activities. It embodies the idea of educating people-oriented.

Students would get more opportunities which is independent study and

individualized education. As stated previously, I think that small class

education has a good effect on academic achievement.

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Bibliography

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Ehrenberg, D., Brewer, D.J., Gamoran, A. and Willms, D.J., ‘Does Class

Size Matter?’ in Scientific American (November 2001)

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