Streaming

Question 1

What is streaming?

Answer 1

Separating pupils into different ability groups qhich are taught separately from each other

Question 2

What did Douglas find?

Answer 2

Children placed in lower streams at the age of 8 suffer a decline in their IQ score by the age of 11 but children placed in higher streams by the age of 8 improved their IQ score by age 11

Question 3

Gillborn and Youdell’s study of 2 London secondary schools

Answer 3

Teachers used stereotypical notions of ability to stream pupils and were less likely to see WC pupils as having ability

This resulted in them being put in lower streams and entered in lower tier GCSEs (widens class gap)

Question 4

(Gillborn and Youdell) what are A to C economies and what do they produce?

Answer 4

A system in which schools focus their effort/resources on pupils able to get five Cs and boost the school’s league table position

Creates an ‘educational triage’ where students seen as hopeless cases are ‘warehoused’ at the bottom sets, creating a self fulfilling prophecy