Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants - How Research Challenges Practice and PolicyPaperback
Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants - How Research Challenges Practice and PolicyPaperback Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday…
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Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants - How Research Challenges Practice and PolicyPaperback
Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils.This key and timely text examines the impact of TAs on pupils' learning and behaviour, and on teachers and teaching. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs.
This was the largest, most in-depth study ever to be carried out in this field. The authors present the provocative findings from the ground-breaking and seminal Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) project. It critically examined the effect of TA support on the academic progress of 8,200 pupils, made extensive observations of nearly 700 pupils and over 100 TAs, and collected data from over 17,800 questionnaire responses and