Class - School Factors

Question 1

Explain the meaning of Labelling

Answer 1

To attach a meaning or definition to someone

Question 2

Becker’s research

Answer 2

Teachers judged pupils according to how closely they fitted an image of the “ideal pupil”

Question 3

Gazeley’s Research

Answer 3

Schools persistently produced w/c underachievement because of labels and assumptions of teachers

Question 4

Rist’s Research

Answer 4

Teachers used information about children’s home backgrounds and appearance to place them in separate groups

Question 5

What is high status knowledge

Answer 5

Tends to be theoretical knowledge and is based on competition and individual achievement

Question 6

What is low status knowledge

Answer 6

Tends to be more practical knowledge and based on cooperative group activities

Question 7

What is self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 7

Is a prediction that comes true simply by virtue of it having been made

Question 8

Rose that and Jacobson Research

Answer 8

Standard IQ test, randomly picked 20% to say that pupil did well. Half of those students did improve