How parents respond to increased class size

How parents respond to increased class size
 
A new working paper from the Swedish Ministry of Employment explores the responses of parents to variations in class size caused by a maxi­mum class size rule in Swedish schools. This included analysis by parental income.
 
The authors found that in response to an increase in class size: (1) only high-income parents helped their children more with homework; (2) all parents were more likely to move their child to another school; and (3) only low-income children found their teachers harder to follow when taught in a larger class.
 
Data for the study was taken from the Evaluation Through Follow-up (ETF) project, run by Göteborg University. This contains measures of student performance in the final year of upper primary school for roughly a 10% sample of the cohorts born in 1967, 1972, and 1982, and a 5% sample for the cohort born in 1977. The project included questionnaires distributed when students were 13 with information about the behavior of parents, students, and teachers. In addition, data on parental income and education was taken from the Income Tax Register and the Educational Register.
 
The authors suggest that their findings help explain why the negative effect of class size on achievement is greater among low-in­come children.

Johns Hopkins University 

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