EFFECT OF CLASS SIZE ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS AT SECONDARY LEVEL

Abstract

The problem under study was to finding out the effects of class size on the academic achievement of secondary school student in the subject of computer science. The study is important because it highlights the problem of over-crowdedness on the academic achievement of the secondary school students, which proves to be very helpful for the teachers and administrators. A teacher made achievement tests (instruments) were used to check the achievement of the student before and after treatment. The null hypothesis that there is no significant difference b/w the academic achievement of the large and normal class size at the secondary level was tested. The t-Statistics was used for the analysis of data. In the Post test the t-value calculated 6.94 was greater than the t -value tabulated 1.98. This shows that both the groups were different in the post test. Mean of large and normal class size were 7.39 and 9.7 respectively which shows that normal class performed significantly better than the large class. This suggests that small classes have a greater effect in enhancing the quality of classroom dealing.