1. Do you think that mixed-ability teaching holds the brighter children back?

2. It is much more difficult to teach a mixed-ability class.

3. Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.

4. It will make provision for mixed-ability groups much easier to organise, and encourage independent study.

5. Another important error is mixed-ability teaching, or teaching in ability groups so wide that the most able pupils are help back and are bored while the least able are lost and equally Bored.

6. Research into group dynamics indicates that a group of high achievers, for example, do not perform as well as a mixed-ability group.

7. We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching.

8. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.

9. Strangely enough, few head teachers seem to be in favour of mixed-ability school football teams.