Ethnicity And Attainment In Education

Question 1

Nuffield foundation

Answer 1

19000 11 year olds born 2000-2001

Showed that 48% of Chinese students had help from private tutors compared to 20% of white pupils.

25% of Chinese pupils spent 5 hours or more doing homework per week compared with 7% of white pupils

Question 2

Strand

Answer 2

Recent immigration may be factor in explaining relatively high performance of low - income minority groups compared to low - income white working class

Question 3

Archer and Francis

Answer 3

Chinese families, even those who were working class, invested large amount of time, energy and money into their children’s education.

They monitored their progression and often hired private tutors

Question 4

Modod

Answer 4

MEG working class students may have better cultural capital than white working class students.

Question 5

Sewell

Answer 5

Believed that it was not reached racism that was the problem but the unwillingness of certain black Caribbean students to break away from black carribean street culture

Question 6

Gillbourn And Youdell

Answer 6

Studied how schools implement an evaluational triage in order to boost their results for league tables

They investigated which students were most likely to be ‘sacrificed’ for this

Often working class black Caribbean 
These students were seen as less able and were therefore put in lower sets who were ‘systematically neglected’

Question 7

Mirza

Answer 7

Myth if underachievement for black women

Girls do better than their male counterparts