Do classroom assistants work?

Educational Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-75

  Woolfson, Richard C ^a   Truswell, Emma ^a  

^a Renfrewshire Educational Psychology Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classroom assistant; Evaluation learning; Parent; Teacher

Indexed keywords

EID: 15744373982     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188042000337569     Document Type: Article

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