Social class and achievement

1. What did keddie say?

Working class and black pupils usually likely to be in lower streams despite similar attainment, and denied chance to sit higher papers more regularly.
In London, low streams taught simplified common sense ideas and questions not taken seriously. In high streams they’re taught complex ideas and questions taken seriously.
Higher set pupils have a higher likely hood of having a positive self concept in secondary school

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Argued Mac and ghails three subcultures oversimplified and found eight subcultures.
Black girls from working class backgrounds tend to respond to labelling by working hard to prove themselves - reject school but not education.

Showed teachers photos of different students and had them guess achievement levels. Those who appeared more typically working class were guessed to have lower achievement levels and vice versa. Proving teachers judge based on appearance.
Gave false IQs to teachers, lower IQ students given high IQ and vice versa. Those who teachers thought had a high IQ progressed more than others, regardless of real IQ.

There are barriers to learning due to low income e.g. lack of well heated space to work, lack of uniform and school trips leading to isolation of student.
Students from better off backgrounds have advantages e.g. out of school activities, they look at Sutton’s research and found advantaged pupils at private schools had richer experiences and detention and discipline more prevalent with disadvantaged pupils
Looked at 5 year olds vocab tests and found a 31% increase from scores of the working class children to the middle class children.