Education Policies: Selection Policies Flashcards
Name the three types of selection
-Selection by ability
-Selection by aptitude
-Selection by faith
Selection by ability: Define
Schools select students according to their academic ability
Selection by ability: 1944 Butler Act
Introduced the tripartite system - three types of secondary schools
Selection by ability: What IQ test did all 11 year olds sit?
The 11+ exam
Selection by ability: Where did you go if you passed the 11+ exam?
Grammar schools - academic education with access to university and professional jobs
Selection by ability: Where did you go if you failed the 11+ exam?
-Secondary modern school - less academic with more practical based subjects e.g cooking for girls
-Technical school - learn trades and skills
Selection by ability AO3: Middle class bias
Questions in the comments 11+ exam were based upon MC knowledge giving MC pupils an advantage
Selection by ability AO3: Reproduced social class inequalities
Grammar schools were full of MC students while secondary modern and technical had mostly WC students
Selection by ability AO3: Reproduced gender inequality
There were few grammar school places for girls which meant they had to achieve higher marks than boys to gain a place
Selection by aptitude: Define
Students are selected based on their potential to be good in certain subjects
Selection by aptitude: Specialist schools
Allowed to select up to 10% of students on the basis of their aptitude in specialist schools
Selection by faith: Define
Faith schools may select a proportion of their students on the basis of the religious beliefs and commitments of parents
Selection policies AO3: Cream skimming
-Despite selection by ability being banned in all state funded schools, evidence of the highest achieving schools cream skimming has been found
-Select the students they see as more able and hardworking
