Class Size, teaching quality and students’ level of satisfaction with their academic performance
Hyseni-Duraku, Z.
Abstract:
The main goal of this study is to verify if a greater number of students within a University’s departments is an influential factor on the quality of instructors’ teaching and evaluating. This goal will be realized through answering two research questions of this study. Through the first question, it will be identified if there is a difference between the level of students’ evaluations of their professors’ delivery and forms of teaching, and assessments between students within small, medium or large departments; meanwhile, the second question will verify if there is a difference between the academic performance of students from different departments. To identify the scope of this study, the quantitative research method has been used. The reserch was conducted with the 1006 students who are currently pursuing their BA degree at Hasan Prishtina University, within different sized departaments. The results of the study reveal that there are differences between the student evaluations on the quality of instruction and evaluation. Students from smaller and medium groups within the department, declare to be more satisfied with their personal academic achievements and give higher evaluations of their instructors, considering the latter cooperative and supportive throughout the education process than did students of larger groups within the department. Furthermore, students of departments with a greater number of students have shown to have more diffifulties on passing their exams compared to other students coming from departments with smaller sized classes.
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APA citation
- Hyseni-Duraku, Z. (2014). Class Size, teaching quality and students’ level of satisfaction with their academic performance. International Journal of Teaching and Education, 2(2), 39–46.