Tag: class size

Increasing class sizes limit student success

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Large classes don’t help anybody. From one-on-one teacher assistance to participation, smaller classrooms stop students from being lost in the crowd. If Ontario class sizes grow as mandated by the provincial government, student learning and comfort will diminish. Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson...

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Pressure on professors

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Elaine Power Since 2004, I have been teaching HLTH 101 — Social Determinants of Health — here at Queen’s. The size of HLTH 101 was stable for many years at 400 and then 450 students, drawn from all over the University. In the summer of 2013, I received a frantic message from our undergraduate coordinator...

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Large class sizes raise questions

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According to a recent study, an average first-year class at Queen’s is one of the largest in the country. The Globe and Mail survey asked Canadian university students to estimate their first-year class sizes and found that Queen’s had an average of 341 students per class, second only to McMaster University,...

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