PAPER 1 - EDUCATION + THEORIES AND METHODS - TOPIC 2

Class Differences in Achievement (internal factors)

Labelling - Becker

• Teachers judge and label pupils according to how closely they fitt the “ideal pupil”.

• This would therefore dampen the motivation of students who did not suit the ideal pupil, due to how teachers deferred their time away from them and were unwilling to help.

 

Labellings effects

• self-fufilling prophecy

• When students are given a label they accept and internalize it which can lead to increased or decreased motivation and participation

Rosenthal and Jacobson study

• informing teachers of students who scored highly on an IQ test and would be a quick learner. Teachers treated these differently and they made improvement due to how teachers paid more attention to them by giving them more feedback.

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