TY  - JOUR
T1  - Class Size and Students’ Mathematics Achievement of Senior Secondary Schools in Southwestern Nigeria
AU - Olatunde, Y. Philias 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SP  - 108
EP  - 112
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2010.108.112
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2010.108.112
KW  - Class size
KW  -academic achievement
KW  -senior secondary school
KW  -national policy
KW  -Southwestern Nigeria
AB  - The study found out the relationship between class size and student academic achievement in some selected secondary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design and simple percentages were used in analysing the data. Two validated instruments (QMT and MAT) were used in collecting data for the study. The subject of the study was made up of 1750 senior secondary school students and 123 mathematics teachers selected from 2 secondary schools in each of the Senatorial districts in Southwestern part of Nigeria. The results showed that the performance of students in large classes was very low (23%) compared to those students in smaller classes (64%). There was difference in the performance of male and female students in either group. It was recommended that policy makers and government should ensure that more classrooms are built and number of students in a class should not be >30.
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