Class size and its impact on information technology instruction

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Class size and its impact on information technology instruction

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Conference On Information Technology Education (formerly CITC) archive
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education table of contents

Destin, Florida, USA

SESSION: Learning and teaching in IT 1 table of contents

Pages 147-150

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-920-3

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Jack Purdum

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper provides a formal assessment of the impact of class size on teaching effectiveness using Analysis of Variance techniques.

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	1	Sid Gilbert, April, 1995, Quality Education: Does Class Size Matter? Research File, vol.1, no. 1. Viewable at: www.aucc.ca_pdf/english/publications/researchfile/1995-96/val1n1_e.pdf.
	2	Indiana has implemented a standardized exam called ISTEP as a measure of the quality of public education. However, since state funds are affected by ISTEP results, many feel that the teachers concentrate on teaching the ISTEP exam rather than the material in general.
	3	All statistical tests were performed using the Microstat 7 statistical package.