Reassessing the impact of teaching assistants: How research challenges practice and policy

Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants: How Research Challenges Practice and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-166

  Blatchford, Peter ^a   Russell, Anthony ^a   Webster, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203151969     Document Type: Book

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