Context of the study | Tracking and Detracking | Official World of Detracked Classroom | Unofficial World of Detracked Students | Worlds Collide |
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Cedar High School
What is the name of the high school in the study?
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Sorting and grouping of students by perceived ability
What is tracking?
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practices set in place by Mr. Apple and Mr. James
Will also take organization strategies, activities, and expectations.
What does the Official World of the detracked classroom focus on?
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What students thought and how they felt about classroom practices
The unofficial world of students consisted of?
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Official world and unofficial world
Rubin considers how the ____ and ___ of the detracked classroom come together
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true
True of False? Cedar High was made up of 40% European American, 40% African American, 10% Latino, and 10% Asian American
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When students are positioned into classes with mixed ability.
What is detracking?
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Balance
What did the teachers think of as the most crucial factor of group work?
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academic achievement
All five students believed there is link between race and ___?
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Race and socioeconomic class
small group settings highlighted which two differences in the detracked class setting?
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Mr. Apple and Mr. James
What are the names of the two teachers in the detracked class?
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Improves the achievement of all children
Help breakdown hierarchies in the classroom Collaborative skills for effective group work Students learn under the guidance of their teachers
What is one benefit of cooperative learning aka group work?
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whole class participant structure and small group participant structure
which two organization models did the teachers use within the classroom?
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Students wanted academically competent, fun, motivating, and respectful group mates.
What kind of group mates did students desire?
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He was the only other African American student there that day and she wanted to work with peers who respected her
Why does Natalie go to great lengths to work with Frankie?
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Kiana, Mike, Grant, Sasha, Tiffany
What were the names of the 5 students in the study?
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Resegrates integrated schools.
Provides an inferior education for students in the lower track lower track students receive unchallenging and non college bound curriculum by the worst teachers.
What is one outcome of tracking?
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race, academic skill level, personality
groups were balanced by which 3 considerations?
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grouping
The criteria for what conflicted with desires of the students?
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Interdependence
Assigning tasks to group members, dividing tasks evenly, holding one another responsible for completing work, taking initiative, and asking questions all contributed to the development of ____?
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9th grade
what grade were the students of the study in?
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Racial diversity
students learn about one another students learn to appreciate differences Students develop the ability to work with others
What are the advantages of detracking?
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With one black student in each group, they often were isolated and seen as the weak student of the bunch
what was the issue with separating students by race?
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Good: someone who works, always reads, doesn't play around
Bad: someone who doesn't pay attention, doesn't do their work, doesn't want to learn, or is rude
What is one trait students believed made a "good" student and one trait that made a "bad" student?
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how well students performed in groups and which responsibilities they fulfilled
What were opportunities to learn based on?
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