School Size. Educational Management Review Series Number 13 [electronic resource] / Ian Templeton.
The documents surveyed in this review are limited in three ways: first, in many cases only the general terms "large" and "small" are used in the discussion of school size. Second, most of the studies deal with secondary schools because there is greater concern with the extent of...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The documents surveyed in this review are limited in three ways: first, in many cases only the general terms "large" and "small" are used in the discussion of school size. Second, most of the studies deal with secondary schools because there is greater concern with the extent of curriculum offerings at that level. Third, many authors draw conclusions from studies of school district size. This is understandable because the data available on district size are often more accurate and more complete than those on school size. School district data are used on the assumption that most small districts are in sparsely populated areas and have small schools, whereas the opposite is true for large districts. This review divides the literature into (1) school size and educational costs, (2) size and student achievement, (3) advantages and disadvantages of small schools, (4) advantages and disadvantages of large schools, and (5) opportunity and actualization factors. Nine of the documents reviewed are available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. (Author) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED072505. Sponsoring Agency: National Center for Educational Research and Development (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Contract Number: OEC-0-8-080353-3514. |
| Physical Description: | 10 p. |