Moreover, a handful of students account for more than 50 percent of the total interactions in both under forty and over forty classes. In classes with [fewer] than forty students, between four and five students account for 75 percent of the total interactions per session; in class of more than forty students between two and three students account 51 percent of the total interactions per session … It would appear that class size has relatively little effect on the average number of students participating in class. Such a finding is particularly interesting view of theft… than more than 65 percent of both male and female students indicated that the large size of the class was an important factor in why students would choose not to talk in class.