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Challenging underachievement in boys

Educational Research, 2006
Background Underachievement among boys and particular ethnic groups is a major challenge to the education system. Purpose This paper reports on one local education authority's attempts to address this concern by investigating the characteristics of its schools demonstrating success with the groups causing most concern: black Caribbean, black African ...
Geoff Lindsay, Roland Muijs
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The underachieving child

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1998
Summary Visual factors in specific learning difficulties (SpLD) are reviewed. People with SpLD fail to achieve at a level that is commensurate with their intelligence. The commonest SpLD is dyslexia, which usually results from phonological processing/decoding deficits.
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Motivational components of underachievement.

Developmental Psychology, 1991
University of Notre DameThe goal of this study was to compare and predict academic performance in achieving and under-achieving students on the basis of motivational, affective, and metacognitive processes. Ninety-eight underachievers and 102 achievers were tested on multiple measures of ability, attributions,self-esteem, reading awareness, and reading
Carr, M., Borkowski, J., Maxwell, S.
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Gifted underachievers and factors affecting underachievement

2020
The study aims to clarify the relationship between the characteristics of gifted underachievers at the university level and reasons for underachievement. Underachievement among gifted university students regarding their personality characteristics, home and parental variables, teacher and school related factors were examined. The students from Boğaziçi
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Underachievement and Creativity: Are Gifted Underachievers Highly Creative?

Creativity Research Journal, 2008
This literature review synthesizes the available literature that suggests that the underachievement of gifted students may be tied to their inherent and unrecognized creativity. Apparently, many gifted students are underachievers and up to 30% of high school dropouts may be highly gifted.
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Underachievers as Tutors

The Journal of Educational Research, 1982
AbstractIn this study a child-teach-child method was applied to male underachievers in elementary school. Fifteen underachieving fifth and sixth graders who were weak in mathematics taught fifteen second graders, who were also weak in math, replacing their classroom teachers. The tutor-tutee pairs met three times a week for about 4 months.
Nurit Bar-Eli, Amiram Raviv
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Learning to underachieve

Roeper Review, 1982
Underachievement is a behavior that can be modified through an awareness of its causes and the introduction of preventative strategies.
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The Underachievers

Theatre Journal, 1989
Gabrielle Robinson, Peter Turrini
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