Challenges faced by lecturers in handling large classes

This case study employed qualitative methods to collect data using open- ended questionnaires on a census sample of 38 junior lecturers and face-to-face interviews on seven purposively selected senior lecturers in the School ofSchool of Entrepreneurship and Business Sciences at Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe.Data were tabulated, analysed presented narratively using emerging themes permeating the study.The study found that class size does matter as it affects the performance and quality of student learning. Hence, large classes correlate with low student performance. The study recommends that if institutions of higher learning continue recruiting mass students then they should likewise recruit enough academic staff to deal with the large number of students. The conducive learning environments so created would in turn positively affect the academic performance of the students through active involvement of the learners with their content thereby higher order cognitive abilities of problem solving and critical thinking so characteristic of deep learning