here was a strong correlation between the bands that students were placed in schools and the occupational backgrounds of their parents.
what did he conclude about students parents occupation and the band they were placed in
students with parents who had middle-class occupations were more likely to be placed in the higher bands whereas children from whose parents had working-class jobs were more likely to be in the lower bands.
what did this setting result in and what were the teacher expectations like?
Ball linked this situation to the process of positive and negative labelling by teachers - that teachers tended to have higher expectations of children in the higher bands and streams which resulted in a self fulfilling prophecy and differential educational achievement.
