The Pupil Premium Toolkit is to be updated when new research into the effective use of teaching assistants is published early next year.
The toolkit, produced and managed by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Sutton Trust, is based on an analysis of thousands of piece of educational research.
It advises schools on the effectiveness and cost of various strategies for narrowing the attainment gap using Pupil Premium funding.
When it comes to teaching assistants, the toolkit currently states that they prove relatively expensive while adding little if anything to pupils’ expected progress across the course of a year. Overall, it awards two stars out of five for Pupil Premium strategies centred on using teaching assistants.
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