Streaming (Internal) Flashcards

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What is streaming?

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Separated children into different ability groups. Each group is then taught separately from others for all subjects (bases perceived ability while sets are academic)

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What are the effects of streaming on WC pupils?

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  • More likely to be in lower streams (not ideal pupil)
  • Once streamed, it’s difficult to move up; children are locked into their teachers’ low expectations. Children in lower streams ‘get the message’ that their teachers see them as no-hopers
  • Creates SFP where pupils live up to low expectation by underachieving
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What are the effects of streaming on MC pupils

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  • Likely to be placed in higher stream, due to teachers’ view of them as ideal
  • They develop a more positive self-concept, gain confidence, work harder and improve grades
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What did Douglas find?

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Children placed in lower stream at age 8 suffered a decline in their IQ by age 11, while those placed in higher stream had improved their IQ by age 11

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How does ‘the guardian’ article support the effects of streaming?

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  • Title: ‘school streaming helps brightest pupils but nobody else’
  • Goes onto outline how children in lower streams do worse in school than others, and streaming only benefits brighter students
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Describe a study on how teachers use stereotypical notions of ‘ability’ to stream pupils

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  • Gillborn and Youdell found teachers are less likely to see WC pupils as having ability
  • As a result, they’re more likely to be put in lower steams and entered for foundation GCSEs.
  • This denies them knowledge and opportunity needed to gain good grades and widens the class gap in achievement
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How do Gillborn and Youdell link streaming to policy of publishing exam league tables

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  • League tables rank schools according to exam performance, in terms of the % of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSE grades A* to C. Schools need to achieve a good league table position to attract pupils and funding
  • Gillborn and Youdell argue league tables creates an ‘A-to-C economy’
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What is an ‘A-to-C economy’?

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A system where schools focus their time, effort, resources on those pupils they see as having the potential to get 5 grade Cs (high progress 8) and boost the school’s league table position

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What is ‘educational triage’?

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Gillborn and Youdell call the process of the A-to-C economy ‘educational triage’, meaning sorting

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How are students sorted in the educational triage?

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  • Those who will pass anyway so can be left to get on with it
  • Those with potential, who will be helped to get a grade C or better
  • Hopeless cases, who are doomed to fail
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What are the effects of the educational triage?

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  • The need to gain a good league table position drives educational triage.
  • This becomes the basis for streaming, where teachers’ beliefs are used to segregate pupils into lower streams. Resulting in underachievement
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What is an advantage of Gillborn and Youdell’s theories?

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  • While they use interactionist concepts (e.g. labelling and face-to-face interactions with pupils) they put these process into a broader context
  • Schools operate in a wider system where marketisation polices directly affect these micro processes to produces class differences in achievement
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