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Classes set by ab l ty are h tt ng ch ldren's self-conf dence
Study could have mportant mpl cat ons for ntervent ons d rected at address ng
d sadvantage n educat on

Date: June 16, 2020

Source: Taylor & Franc s Group

Summary: The way a vast amount of schools are setup, w th classes group ng ch ldren based on the r
ab l ty, s severely affect ng pup l's self-conf dence.

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The way many schools are setup, w th classes group ng ch ldren based on the r ab l ty,
s severely affect ng pup l's self-conf dence.

Th s s accord ng to a new substant al study, by experts from the UCL Inst tute of Educat on, Queen's
Un vers ty Belfast and Lancaster Un vers ty, who looked at more than 9,000 12-to-13-year-old students tak ng
part n 'setted' maths and Engl sh classes (when classes are grouped by ch ldren's ab l ty).

The team, who publ shed the r results n the Br t sh Journal of Soc ology of Educat on, found that not only s
there a "worry ng" self-conf dence gap between students n the top and bottom sets, but, for those n maths
sets, the gap n general self-conf dence n fact w dens over t me -- someth ng the report states s "deeply
concern ng." zamanla

Comment ng on the r f nd ngs, Professor Jeremy Hodgen of UCL Inst tute of Educat on stated that the study
has "potent ally mportant mpl cat ons for soc al just ce," w th the grow ng gap r sk ng "cement ng ex st ng
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nequal t es rather than d ss pat ng them."
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"Low atta ners are be ng ll-served n schools that apply sett ng, and low atta nment groups are shown to be
d sproport onately populated by pup ls from low soc o-econom c backgrounds and from part cular ethn c
groups. attain-elde etmek,erişmek

"Our results have mportant mpl cat ons for ntervent ons d rected at address ng d sadvantage n educat on.

"In terms of soc al n/just ce, our f nd ngs suggest that sett ng s ndeed promot ng both d str but onal and
recogn t ve njust ce."
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The research was undertaken v a student surveys n 139 UK secondary schools (d v ded nto ntervent on or
control groups), and nvolved nst gat ng work w th and mon tor ng student cohorts from the beg nn ng of Year 7
(11-12 years old) to the end of Year 8 (12-13 years old), focus ng on the r exper ences and outcomes n Engl sh
and Mathemat cs.

The analys s shows that when compared w th two years prev ously, there was a general trend that students
had h gher self-conf dence n the subject area of mathemat cs or Engl sh f they were placed n the top set and
a s gn f cantly lower self-conf dence when placed n the bottom set n mathemat cs when compared w th an
average student n the m ddle set. Th s trend n self-conf dence rema ned for general self-conf dence n
mathemat cs and those n the top set n Engl sh -- and cruc ally rema ned after controll ng for atta nment level.
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In other cases, the trend was reduced, albe t n no case was reversed.

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Dr Becky Taylor of the IOE added that the labels assoc ated w th ab l ty based classes mpact ch ldren's self-
percept on n relat on to the r learn ng, subject dent f cat on, and feel ngs about themselves, as learners, and
about the r place n school.

"We do not th nk t unreasonable to hypothes se that these trends n self-conf dence l kely mpact on pup ls'
d s/assoc at ons w th school ng, and n turn on pup ls' percept ons of the r futures.

"The 'ab l ty set' label snowballs as t bu lds momentum and mpact v a the var ous pract ces, understand ngs
and behav ours on the part of the pup l, on teachers, parents, peers, and therefore the school and ts
pract ces."

The report acknowledges more research s now needed to further understand how self-conf dence mpacts
ch ldren's futures, and recogn ses that there may also be a range of d fferent psycholog cal factors and
processes wh ch med ate the affects between the rece pt of an 'ab l ty label' v a track ng, and self conf dence n
learn ng. aracılık etme

"We recogn se that there may be other ssues assoc ated w th bottom set groups that m ght also mpede the
development of self-conf dence over t me, such as absentee sm or exclus on -- albe t t s worth not ng that
these may also be prec p tated by des gnat on to a bottom set group and the d sassoc at on w th school ng
enta led," Professor Hodgen concluded.
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Mater als prov ded by Taylor & Franc s Group. Note: Content may be ed ted for style and length.

Journal Reference:

1. Becky Franc s, N cole Cra g, Jeremy Hodgen, Becky Taylor, Anton na Tereshchenko, Paul Connolly, Lou se
Archer. The mpact of track ng by atta nment on pup l self-conf dence over t me: demonstrat ng the
accumulat ve mpact of self-fulf ll ng prophecy. Br t sh Journal of Soc ology of Educat on, 2020; 1 DOI:
10.1080/01425692.2020.1763162

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