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Setting & streaming - Coggle Diagram
Setting & streaming
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Mixed ability
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Disadvantages
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Lower ability students may require more attention, so higher ability students may fall behind
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Banding
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Disadvantages
May lead to labelling, affecting effort and performance (self-fulfilling prophecy)
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Hallam and Hurley (AO1)
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Findings
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Those in higher sets do well, those in lower sets do worse
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Lacey (AO1)
Ethnographic study using observations, unstructured interviews and questionnaires, and documents (from the school) in a boy's grammar school in England
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Polarisation - as a result of setting / streaming, students respond by moving towards opposite poles (pro-school vs anti school
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Evaluation (AO3)
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Found that there are 'ear'oles' that are pro-school, and 'lads' who are anti school
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The groups in Willis' research were formed due to class, not labelling
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