Psychological implication of Large Class Size on Academic Staff and Students Performance in Nigeria Tertiary institutions

Abstract

Large class size is a challenge to the realization of education objectives. Large class is a problem that is facing many tertiary institutions globally. So, this study investigated the psychological implication of large class size on academic staff job performance and student’ academic performance in tertiary institutions. A total sixty-five online publications and print materials were collected for this study. The literature resources were subjected to content analysis and elimination method to assemble only those that fit into the topic and line of the study. Thirty-seven online journals and reports on the subject matter were finally reviewed and used for the study.  After critical review and selection only insignificant number of them; 7 papers representing 17.88%, indicated that large class size does not affect academic staff and their job performance and students’ and their academic performance while the majority, pooling 42 reviewed papers representing 82.22% indicated that large class size to an extent has psychological effects on academic staff and their job performance and student’ and their academic performance in tertiary institutions. This implies that large classes reduces the quality of tertiary education since it affected implementation of teaching and learning in the classes