social groups and achievement (content)

Question 1

what are social internal factors that can affect achievement?

Answer 1

1. teacher’s expectations
2. labelling
3. subcultures

Question 2

what are social external factors that affect achievement?

Answer 2

1. the three types of capital (economic, cultural and social)
2. material deprivation
3. cultural deprivation

Question 3

what are some ethnicity internal factors that affect achievement?

Answer 3

1. teacher labelling
2. ethnocentric curriculum
3. institutional racism
4. racism

Question 4

what are some ethnicity external factors that affect educational achievement?

Answer 4

1. material deprivation
2. cultural deprivation/capital
3. language barriers
4. family structures

Question 5

what are some external factors that affect female achievement?

Answer 5

1. rise in feminism
2. changes in women’s employment
3. changing ambitions of girls

Question 6

what internal factors affect female educational achievement?

Answer 6

1. teachers attention
2. the curriculum and testing
3. equal opportunities (GIST and WISE)
4. role models
5. league tables

Question 7

what are some reasons for lack of male achievement?

Answer 7

1. primary socialisation
2. feminisation of education
3. shortage of male primary teachers

Question 8

what are some reasons for gendered subject choices?

Answer 8

1. gender socialisation
2. subject images, gender identity and peer pressure
3. school teaching styles
4. gender domains