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The Job Performance Of Teaching Assistants

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Review on Warhurst, C., Nickson, D., Commander, J., & Gilbert, K. (2014). ‘Role stretch’: assessing the blurring of teaching and non‐teaching in the classroom assistant role in Scotland. British Educational Research Journal, 40(1), 170-186.

Introduction This paper is a critical analysis of an academic paper in which the principal focus is an investigation of whether there is a discprepancy between the job performance of teaching assistants in Scotland and the role defined by directors in education system and that shaped by local institutions. Following the pragmatic approach, the researcher adopted mixed methods, employing the combination of quantitative and qualitative method to achieve the goal. Although the concept has its …show more content…

Evaluation
Aim and research questions The key research questions in this paper are do classroom assistants in Scotland undertake teaching, if so to what extent and why. This is based on the premise that there are concerns about the extent to which the teaching assistants overstep the boundary from supporting teaching into the act of teaching pupils itself. The authors state that they have undertaken this study in order to “point to the disjuncture between the original policy intent and the implementation of classroom practice within Scottish schools”. According to Burns and Grove (1999), the purpose of the aims and objectives of a study, the research question and the research hypothesis is to form a link between the initially stated purpose of the study or research problem and how the study will be undertaken.
Previous literature
Policy context
+policy diffrences between England, Wales and Scotland ★ --> RAT why this research comparison
+existing research on what these assistants do in these countries
Quantitative and Qualitative approaches
The article adopts both quantitative and qualitative method in the research design.
In stage one, the authors choose to adopt a quantitative approach in which questionnaire is used to assess teaching assistants’ actual work which is categorised into 4 clusters with each question

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