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Anyone for tennis? Social class differences in children's responses to national curriculum mathematics testing.

The article focuses on the preliminary results from a ESRC project which examined National Curriculum assessment in mathematics for 10-11 and 13-14 year old children in relation to class, gender and ability. The paper examines the ways in which children from different sociocultural backgrounds appro...

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Published in:Sociological Review Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 115 - 149
Main Authors: Cooper, Barry, Dunne, Mairead
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Feb98
Subjects:
Curriculum
Social classes
Qualitative research
Fear of success
Cybernetics
Control theory (Engineering)
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