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The Impact of Tracking by Attainment on Pupil Self-Confidence over Time: Demonstrating the Accumulative Impact of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
Becky Francis,Nicole Craig,Jeremy Hodgen,Becky Taylor,Antonina Tereshchenko,Paul Connolly,Louise Archer +6 more
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The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice. Fo...read more
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Self-esteem of academic and vocational students: Does inter-school tracking sharpen the difference?
Mieke Van Houtte,Jannick Demanet +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that academic students have a significant higher self-esteem than vocational students and this difference is larger in multilateral schools than those in categorial schools, while academic students in multi-ilateral schools have a slightly higher selfesteem than their vocational counterparts.
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Tackling Educational Inequalities with Social Psychology: Identities, Contexts, and Interventions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the Identities in Context model of educational inequalities, which proposes that interactions between students' social identities and features of the local educational context can trigger social identity threat and identity incompatibility in ways that vary considerably across contexts.
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Attainment grouping in English secondary schools: A national survey of current practices
TL;DR: Attainment grouping is a popular yet controversial practice, used in most English schools and on the rise internationally as mentioned in this paper, despite evidence that it is detrimental to the majority of pupils. In En...
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Intervention culture, grouping and triage: high-stakes tests and practices of division in English primary schools
TL;DR: This paper explored the practices of division in operation in primary schools in England in response to the pressures of high stakes tests at age 10/11, known as SATs, using data from interviews with teachers.
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Ability grouping and student performance: A longitudinal investigation of teacher support as a mediator and moderator
TL;DR: The advantages and disadvantages of ability grouping for student achievement are strongly contested, with studies presenting different results as discussed by the authors, however, much of this research has focused on class-l....
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Patients’ Responsibilities in Medical Ethics
TL;DR: It is argued that certain duties of patients counterbalance an otherwise unfair captivity of doctors as helpers and that vulnerability does not exclude obligation.
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Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition
TL;DR: In this paper, Fraser argues for an integrative approach that encompasses the best aspects of both the politics of recognition and redistribution, and argues that the key is to overcome the false oppositions of "postsocialist" commonsense.
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Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expectation and Pupils' Intellectual Development
Robert Rosenthal,Lenore Jacobson +1 more
TL;DR: The Pygmalion phenomenon is the self-fulfilling prophecy embedded in teachers' expectations as mentioned in this paper, which suggests that our expectations strongly influence the performance of those around us from the members of our football team to the students in our classes.
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Teacher Expectations and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Knowns and Unknowns, Resolved and Unresolved Controversies
Lee Jussim,Kent D. Harber +1 more
TL;DR: 35 years of empirical research on teacher expectations justifies the following conclusions: self-fulfilling prophecies in the classroom do occur, but these effects are typically small, they do not accumulate greatly across perceivers or over time, and they may be more likely to dissipate than accumulate.
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