Ds6s teacher gave me the print out of the overheads from a training day on the "modern learning environment". There were 20 overheads. 6 were on "ability grouping or tracking".
they use a scale of -1 to 1 for affect ratio. 1 highest positive, -1 lowest negative, 0 neutral.
overhead 1/ tracking .11, reading 0, maths .02, attitude .10.
Minority students are 7 times more likely to be labeled low ability.
OVerhead 2/ potential for racial discrimination where tracking is used.
Overhead 3/ as above for socioeconomic factors.
Overhead 4/ children in low tracks suffer from low expectations.
Overhead 5/ experiment of labelling kids in 1968 and affect on teacher perception.
Overhead 6/ ability grouping for gifted .3
enrichment .39, acceleration .84.
But if all students respond to high expections and acceleration, is there a need for Gifted and Talented tracks.
Great. The one good thing for my son is that from next year (equiv g2) there is some ability grouping across g2/g3 and g4/5 groupings.
I have a bad feeling but I hope I am wrong.
Really just venting. Thanks.
Last edited by puffin; 08/21/13 01:10 AM.
