Assistants 'failing to improve attainment'

By Simon Vevers, Nursery World, 27 June 2002

Doubts have been cast on the impact that classroom assistants make on pupils' attainment by a new report published in the midst of a campaign to recruit an additional 5,000 assistants in Scotland. A review of international research published last week suggests that pupils made more progress when class sizes were cut, rather than when their teacher had the support of a full-time classroom assistant.

Doubts have been cast on the impact that classroom assistants make on pupils' attainment by a new report published in the midst of a campaign to recruit an additional 5,000 assistants in Scotland. A review...

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