Ethnicity and Attainment

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  • Created on: 31-05-21 14:07
What ethnic group has the highest percentage of students achieving 5 or more A*-C at GCSE?
Chinese students
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What is the connection between ethnic group and free school meals and the impact on attainment?
Chinese students are impacted the least
impacts white British students the most (normally 60.5% get 5 or more A*-C, FSM students its 32.3%)
but across all ethnicities there is a difference in attainment levels
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What are the differences in levels of attendance of university for different ethnic groups?
75.1% of Chinese students in 2008 went to university
32.6% of White British students went to university - largely because of low attainment amongst white working class students
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How did Strand (2015) say parental factors impacted educational attainment?
If a parent has high expectations of their child then the child is more likely to want to live up to these expectations. Also if the parents provided support in terms of providing a computer or a quiet space to work - even offering to help with homework.
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How did Strand say student factors impacts educational attainment?
resilience factors - encourages attainment, positive impact on attainment - having an academic concept and a positive attitude towards school
risk factors - reduces attainment levels, negative impact - having special educational needs, trouble with school
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How did Strand say school factors impact educational attainment?
Quality of school and teaching
attitudes of teachers
moderate affect
teacher expectations make a difference on the students expectations of themselves
Black Caribbean students- quality of school doesn't have a large impact, but teacher expectations do
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How did Strand say social class impacts educational attainment?
social class subcultures impacts how well a student does - impacts white British students the most - White working class students do the worst (anti-school culture - links to Paul Willis' learning to labour)
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How did Strand say Ethnicity impacts educational attainment?
subcultures - impacts how hard a student works Chinese - culture of professionalism, high grades and hard work
white working class - anti-school culture
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How did Strand say Gender impacts educational attainment?
Girls tend to have better behavior and are punished less
Girls do better in Bangladeshi and Black Caribbean groups
Girls do the worse in White working class groups but do do better than White working class boys
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How did Strand say recent immigration has impacted educational attainment?
If a student's parents or the student themselves immigrated from place with poor education they may have more motivation to make use of the education system. Education may also be seen as the only way out of the lower classes. For white working class stud
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What did Archer and Francis find out about British Chinese students ethnic group subculture and how this impacted their attainment?
Chinese parents are all passionately committed to their children's education and have high expectations of their children - this is for both working class and middle class families
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How can Bourdieu's idea of cultural capital help explain the educational attainment of some ethic minority groups?
Chinese and Indians have the largest proportion of middle class members and the highest attainment
May be a link there between having high cultural capital and high attainment. Doesn't explain how Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are doing much better that th
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What did Gilborn and Youdell say about Racism in the classroom?
Inequality in opportunities for Black children- teachers had lower expectations
Black students also felt they had been disadvantaged by their treatment
most teachers were not aware that they were being racist - institutional racism
Black students were
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What is the connection between ethnic group and free school meals and the impact on attainment?

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Chinese students are impacted the least
impacts white British students the most (normally 60.5% get 5 or more A*-C, FSM students its 32.3%)
but across all ethnicities there is a difference in attainment levels

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