Card 26 - Differential Attainment: Internal Class Factors: Setting & Streaming

Question 1

Summarise Ball’s view on streaming inside schools.

Answer 1

• Ball bases his study on Beachside, a comprehensive school who were in the process of abolishing streaming. He says when they did abolish it, the basis for pupil subcultures was largely removed, meaning anti-school subcultures has less of an effect.

Question 2

Give one criticism of Ball’s study of Beachside. (Abolishing streaming = pupil anti-school subcultures declining)

Answer 2

• Differentiation was not removed, teachers still differentiated on the basis of gender, ethnicity and class.