yinnar & glengarry parents 2013

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76%98%96%89%89%88%79%78%77%

Number of words spoken by 3 year olds From professional families: 1,116

From working class families: 749

From welfare-dependent homes: 525

Hart and Risley, 1995

Private vs. State School Athletes (UK)

Harrow School has • 2 All-weather multi-sport pitches• An indoor climbing wall• Weights room• Swimming pool• Sports hall• Courts for tennis, rackets, squash

& fives• 18 hole golf course• Olympic-standard running track

with a water jump for the steeplechaseFrom: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-

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7% attend private school in the

UK 20%

47%

9.5%

36%

8%

50%

Creator of the first IQ test, 1905Alfred Binet (1857 – 1911)

Binet’s aim was to identify which children the curriculum did not suit, so that an alternative curriculum could be designed for them

10 years later, Stanford University adapted Binet’s work

Lewis TermanHenry H Goddard

Black & White IQThe Stanford-Binet IQ test was used to construct an ethnically based social hierarchy.

It was not until later that researchers realised that lower language skills by new English speakers affected their scores on the tests.

5000+ children from the

Millennium Cohort Study

97% were ability-grouped by age 7

Tammy Campbell, Institute of Education

London (2013)

71% September-born pupils in top sets

26% August-born pupils in top

sets

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Progress Charts

Application = Value x Expectation Eccles (2000)

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Intelligence praise“Wow, that’s a really good score. You must be smart at this.”

Process praise“Wow, that’s a really good score. You must have tried really hard.”

Control-group praise“Wow, that’s a really good score.”Mueller and

Dweck, 1998 E

Scandinavian Curling ParentsFOAFOY

Breakthroughwww.stonefields.school.nz

Breakthrough

Stretch

Practice

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