Roles and process in schools

Question 1

Setting

Answer 1

Placing students in groups according to ability in individual subjects

Question 2

Streaming

Answer 2

Placing students in groups according to ability across all subjects

Question 3

Ideal pupil

Answer 3

The characteristics that a teacher subconsciously looks for in a good pupil

Question 4

SFP

Answer 4

When a pupil takes on the label that they have been given and act accordingly

Question 5

Labelling theory: Becker

Answer 5

Attaching a label to a student that has little to do with their actual ability or aptitude.
Teacher/pupil interactions are based upon these labels and can lead to SFP.

Question 6

Evaluation

Answer 6

Deterministic
Focuses on the negative effects
Self refuting prophecy - don’t have to internalize label (Fuller’s research on black girls - label led low-achievers but their response was to knuckle down and study hard to prove their teachers wrong)

Question 7

Rosenthal and Jacobson

Answer 7

Labeled students as ‘bloomers’
Went back after a year and saw that they had made more progress than others