Class Size Effects on Student Performance in a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Benjamin N. Matta; Joseph M. Guzman; Sue K. Stockly; Benjamin Widner

doi:10.1007/s12114-015-9214-5

Class Size Effects on Student Performance in a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Benjamin N. Matta, Joseph M. Guzman, Sue K. Stockly, Benjamin Widner

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Abstract

Overlooked in higher education student retention policies is the effect of class size on student achievement. Decreasing constant-dollar legislative appropriations and growing undergraduate enrollments will continue to strain instructional budgets. One obvious administrator response is to increase class sizes, which raises concerns of negative effects on minority student achievement. Reported are findings that class size does exercise negative effects on the academic performance of Hispanic students.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	443-457
Number of pages	15
Journal	Review of Black Political Economy
Volume	42
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12114-015-9214-5
State	Published - Dec 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Class size
Ethnicity
Gender
Student achievement

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Cultural Studies
Economics and Econometrics

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