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Setting / str
Advantages
May encourage competition
Give them motivation to achieve and put in more effort Banding
May lead to labelling, affecting effort and performance (self-
Mixed ability
fulfilling prophecy)
Increases likeliness of bullying as students know the difference in Disadvantages
ability
Di
Teacher's main concerns end up being those in bottom sets
Students in top sets are given priority with specialist Mac an Ghaill: critiques of setting & streaming
equipment in classrooms
(AO1)
Most experienced teachers taught top set Setting & streaming
High expectations of those in top sets
Supported by Boaler - "The lower sets are like psychological
prison... it just breaks all ambition"
Highly motivated students find it unsettling to be taught with less
motivated students
Problem is that the alternative (mixed ability) is challenging
Setting / str
Advantages
May encourage competition
Give them motivation to achieve and put in more effort Banding
May lead to labelling, affecting effort and performance (self-
Mixed ability
fulfilling prophecy)
Increases likeliness of bullying as students know the difference in Disadvantages
ability
Di
Teacher's main concerns end up being those in bottom sets
Students in top sets are given priority with specialist Mac an Ghaill: critiques of setting & streaming
equipment in classrooms
(AO1)
Most experienced teachers taught top set Setting & streaming
High expectations of those in top sets
Supported by Boaler - "The lower sets are like psychological
prison... it just breaks all ambition"
Highly motivated students find it unsettling to be taught with less
motivated students
Problem is that the alternative (mixed ability) is challenging
