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2003 - SAGE Related Research and Writing
Teaching Practices for Smaller Classes
Date:
September 2003
Authors:
John Zahorik, Anke Halbach, Karen Ehrle, and Alex Molnar
Source:
Educational Leadership
Teachers of higher-achieving
classes emphasize structure in both student management and lesson management.
PDFDate:
September 2003
Authors:
Phil Smith, Alex Molnar, and John Zahorik
Source:
Educational Leadership
In this journal article, the authors
discuss new SAGE findings and answer questions on how much class-size reduction improves student
achievement and which groups it affects most.
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The authors studied the effect of SAGE class reduction
on teaching behaviors when assigned a class with 15 students, and teaching
behaviors that more successful reduced class size teachers use.