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Peer reviewedGerber, Susan B.; Finn, Jeremy D.; Achilles, Charles M.; Boyd-Zaharias, Jayne – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2001
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Learning, School Aides
Cobb, Herman, Jr. – Spectrum, 1984
A study assessed the services provided by paraprofessional aides and the attitudes of principals, teachers, and aides themselves toward the role of aides in classrooms and schools. Questionnaires provided data on aides' assignment within schools, relationship problems, tasks performed, and value of the services. Consensus of each group is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Questionnaires, School Aides
Download full textCalifornia Agency for Research in Education, Burlingame. – 1975
This study was designed to gather current data relating to paraprofessionals in California who have direct involvement with instructional programs. This information was gathered from school districts, principals, and teachers. The data included the following general subject areas: (1) number of school districts using paraprofessionals and school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Nonprofessional Personnel, Paraprofessional School Personnel, School Aides
Mark, Jorie Lester – 1975
This study was intended to fill the gap in available data on paraprofessional funding and programming in the public school systems by focusing on the training and utilization of paraprofessionals in school years 1971-72 and 1972-73 in the 1,800 public school systems around the nation which enroll 5,000 pupils or more. A total of 1,148 school…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Finance, Inservice Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Mott Inst. for Community Improvement. – 1973
There are three major reasons for recruiting school volunteers: they extend the number of people available to help teach; they bring skills to their tasks that professional educators do not have; they experience positive effects themselves simply in the process of volunteering. The wisest recruitment policy would recruit volunteers having the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs, Educational Programs, Educational Strategies
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1977
The document comprises two articles which examine the use of teacher aides and paraprofessional personnel in schools in Western Europe and the United States. The first article is presented in four chapters. Chapter I presents a rationale for using teacher aids in schools in northwestern Europe. Teacher aides are favored because they counteract…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Education
