EDUCATION - CLASS DIVIDES? - The impact of streaming on educational achievement and equality

of the methods adopted, lack of transparency in the analytical procedures and the findings In the rest of this chapter, we review some of the being merely a collection of personal opinions most influential recent commentary and research subject to researcher bias. [...] He further argued “that the quality of teaching and the nature of Gamoran argued that the propensity of the student interactions are the key issues, rather streaming to amplify educational inequality than the compositional structure of the classes”.56 interacts with a general socioeconomic gradient in educational attainment: Because students Cessation of streaming entails challenges. [...] THE NEW ZEALAND INITIATIVE 15 CHAPTER 3 International research on the prevalence and equitability of streaming In the absence of any large-scale quantitative to shed light on the effects of streaming in studies on the effectiveness of streaming in specific contexts, in particular, the evidence New Zealand, we must turn to the international that streaming has different impacts in different research. [...] scores of high-attainment students in streamed and unstreamed classes.96 However, the scores In a similar vein, Trinidad and King analysed of students of intermediate- and low-attainment the Philippines PISA data.93 They found students were significantly lower in streamed that streaming in the Philippines, which is classes. [...] this case on streaming in secondary schools, Slavin concluded that there is little evidence that streaming mathematics incraeses the Contextual factors in the implementation range of attainment in the subject.102 He noted, of streaming however, that the evidence on this only applies to students in different streams being taught As we have noted, meta-analyses average the the same curriculum materi.