Streaming

Question 1

Streaming

Answer 1

Involves separating children into different ability groups or classes called ‘streams’

Question 2

What happens once streamed

Answer 2

Usually difficult to move up to a higher stream
Children in lower streams ‘get the message’ that their teachers have written them off as no hopes
Creates a self fulfilling prophecy

Question 3

Douglas

Answer 3

Found that children placed in higher streams at age 8 had improved their iq score by age 11

Question 4

Deborah youdell (2001)

Answer 4

Shows how teachers use stereotypical notions of ability to stream pupils
They found that teachers are less likely to see working-class and black pupils as having ability

Question 5

Gillbourn and youdell

Answer 5

Link streaming to the policy of publishing exam league tables
Forms A*to C economy
Schools need to achieve a good league table position if they are to attract pupils and funding
System where they focus their time effort and resources on those pupils they see as having potential

Question 6

Educational triage

Answer 6

Those who will pass anyway and can be left to get on with it
Those with potential, who will be helped to get a grade c or better
Hopless cases, doomed to fail