Card 47 - Ethnicity Differential Attainment: Internal Factors: Teacher Expectations

Question 1

What did Mary Fuller’s study counter argue and what did it show?

Answer 1

• Gillborn & Youdell.
• A group of black girls who were negatively labelled by the teachers rejected their labels and continued to work hard.
• Did this while still remaining friends with black girls in lower streams and did not seek approval of teachers.