📍What does ability grouping look like in Australian secondary schools? This study reveals deep variation and raises urgent questions about tracking’s reach across subjects, years, and regions. h/t @dchpomeroy.bsky.social
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices. Just out with Dr Jeffery Quaye www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social
In New Zealand there is no consistent practice, but often families don't know which groups or classes their children are in. Even those who do know often don't understand the implications of particular pathways, e.g. which math course close doors by leaving out algebra.
Olivia Johnston at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia has been publishing some excellent research about tracking in Australia - I've shared two here but there are more!
Rigidity of class ability grouping practices in Australia
O. Johnston, N. Christa and W. and Zhang
Research Papers in Education
doi.org/10.1080/0267...
Are Australian schools becoming less inclusive? Changes to class ability grouping practices in Australian secondary schools.
O. Johnston and P. Palamara
International Journal of Inclusive Education
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
‘When academic knowledge is weaponised by being used as the means of one’s humiliation, the relationship between child and academic knowledge is warped’. Privilege to review "Bottom Set Citizen: Ability grouping in schools" by
Paula Ambrossi doi.org/10.14324/LRE... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social
