While educators defend this approach, pointing out that it encourages pupils to enhance their level and improve their academic achievement, others contend that it undermines children’s self-confidence and exposes them to bullying.
Many schools have observed the use of a classification system based on student abilities and within academic classes. This system divides students into groups according to their abilities and rates of assimilation, then teaches the subject to all groups while planning activities and chores specifically for each group.
Many supporters think that the ability-based categorization system encourages students to push themselves in order to enter groups with advanced classification and that the school is able to make the most of the abilities of select exceptional students.
Others observe that this method causes low-achieving children to lose confidence in themselves and even exposes them to a lot of pressure.
Some people believe that teachers’ expectations for their students were developed as a result of classifications, trapping them within them and preventing them from simply changing their teachers’ perceptions.
A study conducted by the London University Education Institute, that classification by capabilities exacerbates the lack of equality because immigrants and students of limited income families are more likely to be classified within the least -capable groups.
Another study conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the nations that used early capability classification of pupils saw higher rates of educational leakage and lower rates of accomplishment.
Printed reports “The Capacity System” inside schools raises controversy … and causes bullying
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