Reducing the number of pupils in French first-grade and second-grade classes in reinforced educational priority networks (REP+) : evaluation of the effect on pupils' performance and teaching practices / Sandra Andreu , Linda Ben Ali, Laurent Blouet, Pascal Bressoux, Axelle Charpentier, Isabelle Cioldi, Aurélie Lacroix, Laurent Lima, Fabrice Murat, Danae Odin-Steiner, Christelle Raffaëlli, Thierry Rocher, Ronan Vourc’h
Publication de la DEPP / Document de travail
Edité par Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports. Paris - 2021
This study published by the Directorate for Evaluation, Forecasting and Performance momtoring (DEPP) in collaboration with a team of researchers from LaRAC (Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Apprentissages en Contexte, Université Grenoble Alpes), Pascal Bressoux and Laurent Lima, focuses on the impact assessment of the measure to reduce the size of CP (first grade) and CEI (second grade) classes in reinforced priority éducation networks (REP+), implemented from the start of the 2017 school year. It offers several contributions to the scientific literature on class size réduction: on the one hand, it provides a measure of the effects on school performance in the context of a public policy implemented on a very large scale; on the other hand, the study explores the processes at work on the basis of survey and observation data on both teaching practices and the behaviour of pu pi Is in class.