Attainment GapsThe explanations offered for group differences, sorted by where they locate the cause.SociologyHome, school and structure. Most evidence supports a combination.Outside schoolMaterial: space, food, digital access.Cultural: language and books at home.Health, housing and school moves.Parental time and its constraints.Beware deficit framing of families.Inside schoolLabelling and expectation effects.Setting placement and its stability.Uneven access to experienced teachers.Exclusions falling unequally by group.Curriculum content and belonging.Assessment format effects.Educational reference. Gaps differ by group and subject; explanationsthat fit one gap often fail on another.Attainment Gapslearnposters.com
Attainment Gaps — printable law & society wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Attainment Gaps poster

11 entries in 2 groups.

Home, school and structure. Most evidence supports a combination.

Educational reference. Gaps differ by group and subject; explanations that fit one gap often fail on another.

Questions about the Attainment Gaps poster

What’s on the Attainment Gaps poster?
11 entries in 2 groups. Home, school and structure. Most evidence supports a combination. Outside school: Material: space, food, digital access., Cultural: language and books…; Inside school: Labelling and expectation effects., Setting placement and its stabilit…. Educational reference. Gaps differ by group and subject; explanations that fit one gap often fail on another.
Who is the Attainment Gaps poster for?
Attainment Gaps 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 Attainment Gaps poster?
When a gap is explained by one factor and the others go unmentioned. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Attainment Gaps belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Attainment Gaps?
Childhood as a Construct, Credentials & Screening and Cultural Reproduction sit alongside Attainment Gaps 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 Attainment Gaps poster free to download and print?
Yes. Attainment Gaps 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 Attainment Gaps poster print at?
Attainment Gaps 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 Attainment Gaps loses nothing.Printing guide

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