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ERIC Number: EJ1208091
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Apr
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1042-1629
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Online Self-Paced High-School Class Size and Student Achievement
Lin, Chin-Hsi; Kwon, Jemma Bae; Zhang, Yining
Educational Technology Research and Development, v67 n2 p317-336 Apr 2019
In the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom, small classes are generally perceived as desirable, but the benefits associated with particular class sizes in online education have not yet received much scholarly attention. Using a dataset of 10,648 enrollment records generated during the 2013-2014 school year at a state virtual school in the Midwestern U.S., this study examined the relationship between class size and student learning outcomes. The results of hierarchical linear modeling with fractional polynomial analysis suggest a reverse-U-shaped relationship, in which increasing online class sizes had a positive impact on achievement until the number of students reached 45, but a negative one if numbers increased beyond that level. At the subject level, similar reverse-U-shaped patterns were observed in math, social science, and other subjects, but not in English, foreign languages, or science.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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