The phrase "average number of students" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or data related to student enrollment or attendance in educational contexts.
Example: "The average number of students in the classroom this semester is 25."
Alternatives: "mean number of students" or "typical student count".
Clare Beckett is head of student recruitment at Thames Valley University, which takes a higher than average number of students through clearing.
Measuring by the average number of students in a school, he said, would give schools a reason to allow more students to take the test.
Such innovation is already paying dividends at the Open University (OU), for example, where a higher than average number of students recently signed up to a new course on the ecology and wildlife of Antarctica.
Those electives are so popular that the average number of students in them outnumbers any other type of elective offered at the business school.
The inspectors also noted that the school had three times the national average number of pupils with special educational needs or disabilities and twice the average number of students eligible for free meals.
Table 2 Analysis sample in the selected four education systems Education system Student sample size Number of schools Average number of students per school Australia 4051 235 17.24 Germany 1170 70 16.71 Norway 1395 78 17.89 Czech Republic 2928 162 18.07.
The report says it strongly suspects there are "lower than average numbers of students from low income backgrounds" in vocational and higher education courses which feed the cultural and creative sector but stresses "further systematic research is needed".
The average number of participating students at each institution was 2.29 (range of 1 8 students).
Finally, students and facilitators were asked to estimate the average number of times students used online information resources per PBL tutorial using the same scale.
26 Applying a significance level of α=0.05, power=0.80, a 15% prevention effect, and an average number of 20 students per class (m), the power calculations resulted in a recommended sample size of 158 classes and 3160 students.
"But PISA also finds that the average number of hours that students spend on homework or other study set by teachers tends to be unrelated to the school system's overall performance".
