Research by the Education Endowment Foundation and UCL finds that secondary school pupils with high prior attainment in maths (who have previously received high marks in the subject) make slower progress in mixed-attainment maths classes. The EEF recommends that maths teachers in mixed-attainment classes work to stretch high-attaining pupils, and that schools with sets in maths make sure that specialist maths teachers don’t just teach top sets. Read more on their website, here.
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