Class Size: Teaching Quality and Students’ level of Satisfaction with their Academic Performance

The main goal of this study is to verify if a greater number of students within a University department is an influential factor on the quality of instructors’ teaching and evaluating. One of the key analytic theses of this study, is to prove whether there is difference between the level of students’ evaluations of their professors quality and forms of teaching, and the students’ participation in small, medium or large student groups within their department in the Hasan Prishtina University undergraduate program. To identify the scope of this study, the quantitative research method has been used. The measuring instrument was designed in the form of a questionnaire that was conducted with the 1006 students who are currently pursuing their BA degree at Hasan Prishtina University. For the conduction of the research, students were selected from the 12 departments within the university. The results of the study reveal that there are differences between the student evaluations on the quality of instruction and evaluation. Students from smaller and medium groups within the department, declare to be more satisfied with their personal academic achievements and give higher evaluations of their instructors, considering the latter cooperative and supportive throughout the education process than did students of larger groups within the department, whose evaluations reflect dissatisfaction with academic evaluations received within their according pathways of study.