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Webster, Rob; Blatchford, Peter; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Martin, Clare; Russell, Anthony – School Leadership & Management, 2011
Teaching assistants (TAs) comprise a quarter of the school workforce in England and Wales. There has been controversy over TAs' deployment and appropriate role regarding supporting learning and these debates have been transformed by findings from the largest study of school support staff (the DISS project), which show that TA support has a…
Descriptors: Role Models, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, School Support
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Blatchford, Peter; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Martin, Clare; Russell, Anthony; Webster, Rob – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
In recent years there has been an unprecedented increase in support staff in schools in England and Wales. There were widespread expectations that this will be of benefit to teachers and pupils but there has been little systematic research to address the impact of support staff. This study used a naturalistic longitudinal design to investigate the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Naturalistic Observation, Paraprofessional School Personnel
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Blatchford, Peter; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Webster, Rob – British Educational Research Journal, 2009
Despite an unprecedented increase in classroom-based support staff, there are confusing messages about their appropriate deployment and a lack of systematic evidence on their impact. This article addresses the deployment and impact on pupil engagement and individual attention of support staff, commonly known as teaching assistants (TAs), in terms…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools, Teaching Assistants
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Blatchford, Peter; Russell, Anthony; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Martin, Clare – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
It is widely assumed that increasing the number of teaching assistants (TAs) in the classroom will be beneficial to children, and this is one important aim of the recently implemented Workforce Agreement. But there are still significant gaps in knowledge about many aspects of their deployment and impact. The Class Size and Pupil-Adult Ratios…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods, Longitudinal Studies, Questionnaires