Ethnicity, gender and social mobility
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Grouping children by ability can have a 'profound negative impact' on social mobility. Research by the governments Social Mobility Commission, cites evidence that children from low income backgrounds are more likely to appear in low ability groups.
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Is Mathematics T.I.R.E.D? A Profile of Quiet Disaffection in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom
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This article reports on a one-year study of quiet disaffection conducted in three Year 9 mathematics classrooms in Norfolk. Through extensive observation and interviewing of seventy 13/14 year-old pupils, a profile of quiet disaffection from secondary school mathematics was constructed
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Attitude and Achievement of the Disengaged Pupil in the mathematics Classroom
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A significant finding in this study was that students seemed to perceive mathematics as a demanding subject, in which only exceptionally intelligent people can actually succeed. Lack of success in mathematics tended to be interpreted by the students as being due to lack of intelligence on their part, which led to overwhelmingly negative feelings about their own mathematical ability.
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Ministerial Muddling Over Mixed-Ability
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How are decisions made about how to group children into ‘ability’ sets. This article discusses whether various criteria are unwittingly applied when such decisions are made.
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Students’ experiences of ability grouping--
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This report contributed towards a growing awareness
of the inadequacies of streamed systems, supported by a range of other research studies which highlighted the inequitable nature of such systems. Studies by Hargreaves (1967), Lacey (1970) and then Ball (1981) all linked practices of streaming and setting (whereby students are divided into different classes by ‘ability’ for individual subjects) to working-class under-achievement. |
It’s not which school but which set you’re in that matters: the influence of ability-grouping practices on student progress in mathematics
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This paper reports specifically on the impact of setting arrangements on the progress of students between KS3 and GCSE.
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Inclusive Mathematics Classrooms Mike Ollerton
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What defines an inclusive classroom? This article discusses ways inclusion has been worked on in classrooms which operate in different educational contexts.
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Ability Grouping in the secondary school
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This paper presents results from a project exploring relationships between different types of ability grouping and both academic and non-academic outcomes for pupils.
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Setting or Streaming
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The EEF is an independent grant-making charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement, ensuring that children and young people from all backgrounds can fulfil their potential and make the most of their talents. We fund rigorous evaluations of innovative projects aiming to raise pupils' attainment. We do this to find out what's most likely to work effectively and cost-effectively, and to put that into action across the country.
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What is preventing Social Mobility?
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Social mobility is considered fundamental to a meritocratic society, and as vital both to economic productivity and to democracy. Yet efforts thus far to stimulate social mobility have been largely unsuccessful. What sort of initiatives and approaches, then, might prove more fruitful in securing mobility? This review of the literature seeks to address this question, providing evidence to support a ‘sister publication’ from ASCL which makes recommendations to Government.
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The symbolic violence of setting:
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‘Setting’ is a widespread practice in the UK, despite little evidence of its efficacy and substantial evidence of its detrimental impact on those allocated to the lowest sets. Taking a Bourdieusian
approach, we propose that setting can be understood as a practice through which the social and cultural reproduction of dominant power relations is enacted within schools. |
