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Does mixed ability grouping improve attainment in middle schools?

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Staff and researchers would be required to refer to parent/guardian/carer as "whoever is at home" due to political correctness

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Could end up with over 1200 consent forms

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Would require consent from every student, parent and teacher in the school

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Could impact and increase the attainment gap as teachers are less likely to address misconceptions but to instead challenge the behavioural issues within a group

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Could impact behaviour as LPA won't engage and risk being 'class clown'

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LPA less likely to engage/interact in lessons

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LPA intimidated if support taken out as they are not their 'safe zone' of bottom set

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Mixed ability groups still could create a 'class divide' as HPA students would 'dwarf' LPA students - belittling

Could potentially raise the risk of bullying based on ability

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Assessment creates a knock-on effect to student's wellbeing as this reduces anxiety over being top of the class and being in top set

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Creates a one size fits all curriculum so if a student was in top set when they shouldn't be, educators can adapt to this in a mixed ability group.

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Attainment gap caused by lack of or inconsistent differentiation across different ability groups

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The education system should focus on  "liberating" learners from oppression, rather than just simply improving attainment, thus enabling them to set their own goals, to define the person they want to become, while providing them with opportunities to achieve them.
A critical theory commits all participants, learners, practitioners and researchers, with an active transformation of the environment, aiming at higher goals beyond the academic: a more democratic and equitable society. Therefore this approach challenges the purpose of education in its very base.
A critical theory tries to look at the whole picture.
Drawbacks: time-consuming, expensive, linked to a political view that could change with governments.

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Critical theory is not just verifying findings against mean values, averages and hight correlations (positivism) and it is not just giving insight in not generalizable subjective observation and expression (interpretivism). It is much more trying to understand why findings would be interpreted in a certain way. Therefore critical approach would much more look for interaction than for regularity and would be always aware of the context.

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Supports the Critical Research approach as it's looking at information from both positivist and interpretivist approaches and analyses it with a set of objectives. Critical Research is a political approach that incorporates social justice.

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Why? (positives - identify limitations but explain why positives outweigh these/how they can be mitigated) (500 words)

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To what extent the recent removal of attainment-grouping and implementation of mixed-abilities in schools removes social injustice with students from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds?

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Drawings, diaries, ...

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- Due to the subjective nature of the approach, there is much room for bias.
- Data is impacted by personal views and viewpoints.
- Generated data cannot be generalized.
- Low reliability and representativeness of the data.

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- in-depth insight into the  lives of individuals
- empathetic understanding
- high validity, because such studies are mostly trustworthy and honest

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Practices of ability grouping seek to preserve structures of domination of one stronger part of the society (high-ability) over another, seen as weaker (low-ability), instead of bridging the gap between them

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We have a night owl indeed in our team!

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qualitative

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Knowledge is
- a process of a personal cognitive construction or invention
- a result of individuals trying to make sense of their environment
-  useful (viability) and socially accepted
- provisonal and relativistic
- depends on  existing conceptual frameworks

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Gain an insight into individuals. Understand why people behave in a certain way.
As researchers, we influence participants and they influence us.

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Denies the possibility of obtaining an objective view of the world. Everything is subjective. Individuals are complex.

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There are multiple realities that are products of mental constructions and interpretations.
The realities depend on each individuals set of experience, beliefs and understanding.

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Middle School (Year 5 - 8)
Co-ed

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Differences between positivism, interpretivism and critical research.
Main factors of each paradigm (300 words)

Limitations of the design frames (200 words)

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Alejandro

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Anne

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Alex

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The impact of ability grouping: A particular setting with ability grouping wants to change to mixed-ability grouping based on research.
Impact on:

Assessment

Student Wellbeing

Social Classes

Ethical Issues