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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I notice that many college rankings consider class size.
As an adult, why do you need to be sitting in a tiny classroom to learn? [/quote]
DC goes to an lac and recently his college had a pretty big class for the first time in a while: 280 students, across 2 sections to not overwhelm profs who are used to teaching 10-20 person classes. This was with a professor who has a perfect rate my professor and is seen as ubiquitously the best lecturer in his department.

The class went horribly. In smaller classes, profs tend to push way past the expected curriculum, because there’s more time and expectations can be heightened as students progress through more difficult loads. This massive class failed as students felt the course pace was too slow, but the actual work/exams were at the expectation of a small class where you get more feedback.

An example of this is that in DS’s real analysis class, they were able to blow through real analysis 1 (the course) and move through most of real analysis 2, since the course only had 8 students (it was a last minute section opening- usually there’s about 30-50) and the students were grasping content at an advanced level. In a typical real analysis course, they’d just do exceptionally well but would learn less content.[/quote]

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