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Student Grouping: Setting or Mixed Ability? AN UPDATE

The Confident Teacher / By / 3 minutes of reading

  Very recently I asked the question about the thorny topic of student grouping: Is it better to group students based on their prior ability, in mixed ability groupings, or something in between? I went on to share some evidence from the EEF Toolkit, which is broadly critical of setting by ability models, whilst also …

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Student Grouping: Setting or Mixed Ability?

Uncategorized / By / 5 minutes of reading

Is it better to group students based on their prior ability, in mixed ability groupings, or something in between? This questions besets schools, departments and teachers on an annual basis. There are unique conditions, supports and pressures that mean it is a difficult issue with no silver-bullet answer. The best we can do is survey the …

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