Summary Of Class Size

The article "The "Why's" of Class Size: Student Behavior in Small Classes." by Jeremy D Finn, Gina Pannozzo, and Charles Achilles explains that classroom sizes should not matter. Jeremy D Finn is a known scholar in research methods and issue of class size and student engagement. He has a M.A and PH.D from university of chicago. He has taught as the ontario institute for studies in education and stanford university. Gina Pannozzo is a director of extended learning at buffalo state college. She went to university at buffalo getting a PH.D in educational psychology and getting a B.A of psychology at SUNY Binghamton. Charles Achilles is a leading expert on class size and impact on student achievement. He went to the university of Rochester. The …show more content…
I found it interesting because the authors bring in many researchers who did a lot of surveys and how they actually went and observed classrooms. These researches went too many different school and sat down and figured out behavior of the students and how they act in smaller classrooms to in comparisons of large classrooms. What i thought was surprising is that i found lots of articles fighting the argument of having smaller classrooms and why they are better for students. And in the studies they did in this article they did not find many differences. The argument I am trying to make is to have smaller classrooms and why they are better for student achievement. Seeing the counterclaim article is going to help me in my side of the argument because seeing that their studies only work in some states and in only some schools and not all schools are the same is going to boost my argument up because most schools do need smaller classrooms and that most schools with smaller classes have betters scores and percentage is effective. Most of the studies that they have are from observation and not asking students and or the teachers what they think. I feel that if they were to ask what they think, the counterclaim would change a lot. This counterclaim article had a lot to say about not having smaller classrooms and the authors brought in a lot data and tables about how the percentage of largerer classrooms have some, but not so many differences from students in smaller classes. My point of view on this article is surprising because of the points they make. Smaller classes should be able to be smaller just because these researches did their observations does not mean this should stop schools from making a difference in students lives. I feel like this