The Impact of School Size on Both the Academic Achievement and the Pro-School Attitude of Children: Verification from 3 Areas throughout Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590233
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Hyogo University of Teacher Education
• Principal Investigator: SUDA YASUYUKI 兵庫教育大学, 学校教育研究科(研究院), 教授 (90216474)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MINAMIMOTO Osao 関西学院大学, 教職教育研究センター, 教授 (60108371) ; SHIRAMATU Satoshi 愛媛大学, 教育学部, 教授 (10299331) ; MIZUKAMI Takemi 北海道教育大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 教授 (60710895)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 学校規模 / 学力 / 向学校性 / 学区の社会経済的豊かさ / 交互作用 / 家庭環境 / 学級への愛着

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study, intended for 5th graders of 64 elementary schools in 3 areas throughout Japan, captured the degree of impact that school size had on academic achievement, and the pro-school attitude of children. The number of valid responses is 5656. Regarding the effect of school size on the academic achievement and the pro-school attitudes, the interaction of the socio-economic prosperity with the school district was observed. School size is not significant to the academic achievement, however, even if the school district is socio-economically prosperous, in schools with enrolment over 1000 students, school size has negative impact. In addition, school size could have a negative effect on pro-school attitudes. On the other hand, this study shows that even in schools that have enrolment over 700 students, a pro-school attitudes is sufficiently high where socio-economic prosperity is maintained.

Free Research Field

教育社会学