The Impact of Over-Crowded Classrooms to Teachers and Students

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Pedagogy - Pedagogic Sociology, grade: A (5.0), , course: Individual Research Project, language: English, abstract: Researchers aimed at investigating the impact of classroom over-crowdedness on teacher-student interactions in teaching and learning process and specifically identify the problems both teachers and students face in over-crowded classrooms and identify solutions to the problems and finally determine the relationship between over-crowded classrooms and teacher-student interaction in learning and teaching process.
The researcher used questionnaires to collect data where the findings came up with the facts that noise making, failure to attend each student's need, restriction of teachers movement in the class, cheating in exams, wastage of time setting orders in class, difficulty in marking, and both teachers and students being stressed are the impacts resulting from over crowdedness in classrooms.
The research has found that there is a relationship between classroom over crowdedness and teacher - student as the arrangement in the class limits teachers from moving from one place to another and also heavy work load makes teacher frustrate and stressed this let him bored and lose hope to his work.