EDUCATION: Ethnicity and education - Internal factors (institutional racism - Assessment & access to opportunities + New IQism)

Question 1

Assessment

• Gillborn - What does he say about assessments and give an example to prove this and explain how it supports his statement
• Sandess + Horn

Answer 1

GILLBORN: ‘assessment game’ is rigged to validate the dominant cultures superiority

• E.G. baseline assessments were changed to FSP and black children began doing worse than white children
• The FSP is based on teacher judgement and a change of timing from primary to end of reception year

SANDESS + HORN: When teachers assessed work more rather than written exams, the gap between scores of ethnic minorities widened

Question 2

Access to opportunities
- Gifted and talented programme (What was it) 
Gillborn - 
- Exam tiers
Tikly Et Al 
Strand

Answer 2

GIFTED + TALENTED: Created with aim of more able pupils in innovative programmes
GILLBORN: Shows how whites are over 2x as likely to be gifted than Black Caribbean’s and are 5x more likely than Black Africans

EXAM TIERS
TIKLY ET AL: Despite am ‘aim higher’ programme to raise Black Caribbean achievement, blacks were still more likely to be entered in low tier GCSES as they were in lower sets
STRAND: Found White-black achievement gap in maths and science
- Ethnic differences in entry to test tiers reflect teachers expectations leading to self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 3

The new IQism

- What is it

Answer 3

Teachers and police makers make false assumptions about the nature of pupils ability / potential =once a pupils potential has been measured, they ca be put into the ‘right’ set or stream

Question 4

The new IQism

- Gillborn - What does he say about tests

Answer 4

GILLBORN: Believes all a test can do it tell us what a person has learnt already or can do now, not what they may be able to do in the future - like a driving test