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Direct linkWebster, 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
The Impact of Support Staff on Pupils' "Positive Approaches to Learning" and Their Academic Progress
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
