What was Ball’s educational research into setting and streaming called?

Beachside Comprehensive

What is the halo effect?

A stereotype held by a teacher which tends to be good

What is the Hawthorne Effect?

Is where the influence of the researcher changes the behaviour of those people being studied

What is interviewer bias?

Where the answers being given in an interview are influenced by the interviewer

Identify one problem researching media violence.

Defining what is violent, ethical issues, variables on the study, difficult to measure the effects

What is ethnocentric education?

Where other cultures are viewed through one dominant culture and so a school curriculum will be biased towards white history

How might you defend the role of private schools?

People should be allowed to choose where they send their children

What perspective on education did Althussar have?

Marxist

What did Althussar see state education as being?

He saw state education as being an ideological state apparatus, because education is used to prepare and control children for work

What is the division of labour?

This is where schools identify who will be the future solicitors and bin-men, this is done by the less able kids being put in bottom sets while able kids are put in the top sets

What did functionalists mean when they said education meets a functional prerequisite

education passes on societies core values

Why might a closed questionnaire be seen as more reliable than an open interview?

Unlike open interviews, closed questionnaires can be repeated time after time as the structure remains the same

Identify one problem with covert observations

Leaving the group, recording events, ethical issues,

What did the feminist Sue Sharpe look at in her Just Like a Girl Study into education in 1976 and then a follow up study in 1994

She found out that the girls of this period focused on love, marriage, then in 1994 she found these priorities had changed and girls now valued careers, education

What did feminist Becky Francis study in 2000

it confirmed Sharpe’s findings and find girls were now extremely career minded and saw education and university as key to getting a good career

What was the main idea in Paul Willis’s work?

Learning to Labour how working class kids get working class jobs  

What did Bowles and Ginitis focus on and what perspective on education did they hold?

The long shadow of work – Marxist’s postion

If a sociologist has on interactionist perspective on education, what are they focusing on?  

Factors/ events in the classroom

What did Fuller’s (1980) research into the behaviour of Afro-Caribbean girls discover?

His study at a London Comprehensive school found that Afro-Caribbean girls’ rejected the stereotypical label given to them by their teachers and worked hard at school

What did the Ofsted and Dfes reports of 2000 and 2005 discover about the labelling of ethnic minorities in schools?

The reports found that teacher labelling does affect of black pupils does become a self-fulfilling prophecy and could account for the hostility some ethnic groups have to schooling.

Identify two interpretive and positivist research methods

Interpretivist – observations, unstructured interviews, open-ended questionnaires, personal accounts diaries Positivist – the experiment, social surveys, structured interviews, official statistics

What is the comparative method in social research?

This is where the researcher collects data about different societies or social groups in order to explain the cause of a social event