Learning communities are designed to increase student persistence and academic achievement and are a retention strategy to increase these outcomes for 1st-year college students. This article examines the educational outcomes for a learning community specifically designed for nontraditional Latina(o) students enrolled in a grant-funded program to…

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…

The purpose of this research was to determine how leadership behaviors of principals relate to school climate, teachers' job satisfaction, and student achievement. The relationship of leadership to student achievement was measured by the school levels based on the administration of the 2006-2007 Mississippi Curriculum Test (MCT). Leadership and…

In "Teacher Incentives in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from India"--a paper presented at the National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference in February--Karthik Muralidharan (Harvard University) and Venkatesh Sundararaman (The World Bank) present findings from a randomized experiment conducted in…

Studied whether the presence of a teacher aide in the classroom has noticeable impact on student learning using data for more than 6,300 students in 79 Tennessee schools. Findings suggest that teachers' aides have little, if any, positive effects on student learning. Results also indicate that many aides are required to perform tasks for which…

Approximately 400 black children from the inner city are bused to West Hartford suburban schools. (Author)

This study was designed to investigate the effects of assistant teachers on the reading, language, mathematics, and spelling achievement of black first and second grades students. The subjects of the study consisted of 167 first and second grade students at East Kemper Elementary in Scooba, Mississippi. The students of the 1982-83 and 1983-84…

This program was intended to improve the level of educational achievement in the project area through the provision of paraprofessional aides residing in the school community who could provide direct support to the teaching and learning efforts in the classroom. The major thrust of the evaluation was to determine whether teacher aide service had…

The Cooperative School and College Ability Test (SCAT) was found to be the best overall predictor of cumulative grade point average and success in professional education courses. (MM)

The project demonstrated that relatively untrained teacher aides could be identified and placed in a training program which would prepare them to provide supplemental instruction to children having difficulty in language and reading. The instructional program was very specific in terms of its use of materials, modeling, drills, monitoring, and…

The purpose of this study was to see if self-concept and school behavior of problem junior high school students could be changed by participation in a teacher helper program in an elementary school. Self-concept ratings of the experimental students significantly increased while control group members did not change. Neither group changed…

Results of this study indicate that a student-teaching experience significantly improved the mathematics aptitude and hence raised the SAT-M scores of secondary students serving as teacher aides in high school mathematics classes. (MK)

Discusses research on the use of paraprofessionals, aides, and assistants in schools. Describes several school-district career-ladder and instructional programs for paraprofessionals. Finds paraprofessionals contribute to student achievement. (PKP)

The current debate about class size is not centered on whether smaller class sizes are desirable. Rather, the debate is whether the costs involved are the best ways to spend taxpayers' monies. This analysis addresses this question for the state of Florida. Using the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test as a measure of educational achievement, a…

In most bilingual education programs, the traditional course instruction, is conducted by the classroom teacher in English and later presented by the instructional aide in Spanish to the Chicano student. This implementation process and differentiated instructional modes may have severe consequences for the Chicano students' performance and…