Csr And Academic Achievement Essay

The Effects of Class Size Reduction on Students’ Academic Achievement

Education is the key element of development in a country. As much, the education is efficient, the progress of a country happens faster. This important rule of education in progressing make the policy makers more concern about finding and implementing the law and policies to make education more efficient. Among different ways, one of the attractive and easiest ways is Class Size Reduction (CSR). Several countries have implemented this policy like some of the USA states, the UK, Netherland, etc. Even some Asian countries with enviable academic achievements, in spite of having large classes like Japan have chosen this option to improve their level of education (Erhenberg et

Besides that, between those years the number of families with single parent were high, the population characteristic changed in the USA and the immigration in the

USA increased. Consequently, CSR affected by all those factors and the impacts of all those changes made it difficult to evaluate the effects of CSR on academic achievements (Ehrenberg et al. 2001). Therefore, to evaluate the effects of CSR, we have to organize and create an isolate situation in which the other factors may not affect the CSR as the condition that was implemented in famous research like STAR and SAGE.

The CSR affects students’ academic achievement significantly and the effects of CSR remain for long time, even when students return to normal classes. For example, Jeremy Finn and Charles M. Achilles found that the advantages of CSR remain into upper elementary levels after students return to larger classes (as cited in Ehrenberg et al, 2001). On the contrary, one of the projects done to evaluate the effect of CSR on students’ academic achievements was the

Class Size and Pupil Adult Ratio- CSPAR in UK. What CSPAR found was that the effects of CSR remain only when the students return to smaller or similar class (Blatchford, 2009).