Questions about the Tracking & Setting poster

What’s on the Tracking & Setting poster?

The case for against The evidence against, side by side. The case for: Teaching pitched to a narrower range; The case for: Faster progress for high attainers; The case for: Support concentrated where needed; The case for: Manageable for the teacher; The case for: Popular with many parents; The evidence against: Small average effect, unequal by group; The evidence against: Low sets often get less experienced staff; The evidence against: Placement tracks class and month of birth; The evidence against: Self-fulfilling prophecy in low sets; The evidence against: Movement between sets is rare in practice; Most reviews find little gain overall with losses concentrated in lower sets, but fin…. Educational reference. Ability grouping research is mixed and context-dependent; treat single-study claims with caution.

Who is the Tracking & Setting poster for?

Tracking & Setting belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning family & education can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Tracking & Setting poster?

When a school defends setting as simply better teaching for everyone. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Tracking & Setting belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Tracking & Setting?

Childhood as a Construct, Credentials & Screening and Cultural Reproduction sit alongside Tracking & Setting in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Childhood as a ConstructCredentials & ScreeningCultural Reproduction

Is the Tracking & Setting poster free to download and print?

Yes. Tracking & Setting downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Tracking & Setting poster print at?

Tracking & Setting is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Tracking & Setting loses nothing.Printing guide