Banding, Streaming and Setting

Question 1

banding, streaming and setting - banding

Answer 1

grouping children according to ability

Question 2

banding, streaming and setting - streaming

Answer 2

dividing students into their overall ability for all classes

Question 3

banding, streaming and setting - setting

Answer 3

dividing students into different groups of ability for each class

Question 4

banding, streaming and setting - ball

Answer 4

top stream student encouraged to achieve highly and lower stream students encouraged to follow vocational courses

Question 5

banding, streaming and setting - smyth; lower stream students have:

Answer 5

• negative attitudes to school
• spend less time on homework
• damaged self-esteem/confidence

Question 6

banding, streaming and setting - sutton trust

Answer 6

streaming favoured those in middle-class
higher the pupils social class = higher chance go being put into a top stream

Question 7

banding, streaming and setting - keddie; unequal access

Answer 7

pupils in higher stream classes are given more educational knowledge and expected to do more work
lower stream are not given access to the same knowledge