Reducing classroom numbers and employing more teaching assistants are not effective ways of spending the new pupil premium, a report has said.
The Sutton Trust this week published a guide developed by academics at Durham University and based on a range of educational research into raising achievement.
Entitled A Toolkit of Strategies to Improve Learning: Summary for Schools Spending the Pupil Premium, the guide assesses 20 approaches to improving learning and estimates the progress that an average student might expect to make under each strategy.
It claims that the benefits for reducing class sizes are not obvious until you reach at least 20 or even 15 in a class and also maintains that hiring more teaching assistants would have a “very small or no effect on attainment".
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