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Class Size

FAQ: How can we show that increasing class size in composition courses will have negative effects? (Or from a positive angle, that decreasing class size in composition courses will have positive effects?)

• Positive Effects of Reducing Class Size @ Arizona State University: From Greg Glau: Powerpoint Overview and Spreadsheet
• Class Size and Conferencing-UCCS: Research in Progress, Deb Dew @ U of Colorado-Colorado Springs
  • Proposal for WPA 2006 Presentation
• Class sizes for First-Year Regular and Basic Writing Courses: 2006 CompFAQs site to expand and update current collection.
  • Class sizes for First-Year Regular and Basic Writing Courses: (CompPile Archive).
    • Original data collected from the Writing Program Administrators Listserv, 1998–1999, 2003–2005. Richard H. Haswell, Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.
• Position statements from professional organizations
  • More than a Number: Why Class Size Matters: NCTE Guidelines on class size, with bibliography
  • CCCC: Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing: Guidelines for treatment of teachers (including graduate students); recommending no more than 20 students in FY writing classes (15 for developmental)
  • NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing: Although these guidelines do not specify “class size” for writing instruction, the various beliefs and their implications for teaching all point to the need for teachers to work closely with individual students