Ethnicity - Internal Factors - The 'New IQism'

Question 1

What is New IQism?

Answer 1

New IQism is where teachers place students in sets on the basis of poor attainment, disciplinary concerns and perceptions of their attitude. For example, G+Y found that teachers had racialised expectations that black pupils would pose more disciplinary problems.

Question 2

How is the New IQism linked to setting and streaming?

Answer 2

Gillborn argues that teachers and policy makers make false assumptions about the nature of pupils’ ability and potential.
They see potential as a fixed quality that can be easily measured - and one measured, pupils can be put into the ‘right’ set or stream, onto the Gifted and Talentend programme, and so on.

Question 3

What did GIllborn and Youdell say about secondary schools and streaming?

Answer 3

Gillborn and Youdell (2001) note that secondary schools are increasingly using old style intelligence (IQ) tests to allocate pupils to different streams on entry.

Question 4

How does Gillborn critice the New IQism?

Answer 4

For Gillborn, however, there is no genuiune measure of potential, as it can’t predict what an individual will be like in the future.

Question 5

What does Gillborn conclude?

Answer 5

Gillborn concludes that the education system is institutionally racist, and it creates an environment in which ethnic mintority pupils are disadvantaged.