ABSTRACT
In the best mixed ability classes much of the work will be individualised. Class themes will be exploited by each pupil according to his or her needs, aptitudes, interests and abilities. Graded workcards will tease the brains of the most able, while remedial problems will be dealt with by a floating specialist teacher on call to the class as required. This chapter describes the procedures and findings of the research and draws from them implications about the ways in which teachers catered particularly for the most and least able in the five classes studied. Categorisation of tasks into low and high level is crude, but will serve the present purpose. Tasks are regarded as low level if they require responses using information or data only, especially items already provided by the teacher. Teachers of mixed ability classes do not neglect bright pupils if, by that phrase, one means that they pay them little attention.
