What is streaming, setting, banding in teaching?

Question

What is streaming, setting, banding in teaching?

Answer 1

Banding involves putting pupils into broad ability bands and is often used to ensure each school in an area had pupils representing a reasonable balance of each ability level.

Streaming means splitting pupils into several different hierarchical groups which stay together for all lessons.

Setting means putting pupils of similar ability together just for certain lessons. So, for example, it is possible to be in a top set for French and a lower set for mathematics.