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Telling a Tale: How Underachievement Develops in Gifted Girls

, 2020
In this multiple-narrative inquiry, we examined the narratives of four underachieving gifted girls to identify aspects that appear to have contributed to the onset, development, and resolution of academic underachievement.
O. Desmet, Nielsen Pereira, J. Peterson
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Gifted Underachievement and Achievement Motivation: The Promise of Breaking Silos

, 2020
Academic underachievement has fascinated and frustrated those in gifted education for decades, capturing the attention of educators, researchers, and policy makers alike (McCoach & Siegle, 2003). A topic of interest in education as far back as the 1950s (
Kate E. Snyder, S. Wormington
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Understanding Underachievement: Mindset, Perfectionism, and Achievement Attitudes Among Gifted Students

Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2019
The current study compared differences between mindset beliefs about intelligence (fixed vs. growth), dimensions of perfectionism (Concern Over Mistakes, Doubt of Action, Personal Standards, Organization), and achievement attitudes among gifted ...
E. Mofield, Megan Parker Peters
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An Expectancy-Value Approach to Math Underachievement: Examining High School Achievement, College Attendance, and STEM Interest

The gifted child quarterly, 2019
Students’ academic underachievement, defined as discrepancies between ability and academic performance, is a widespread problem leading to many negative consequences.
Carlton J. Fong, Kristen P. Kremer
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A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Research into the Underachievement of Gifted Boys

, 2020
Academic underachievement among children and young people is an area of considerable concern, and it is often linked to particular groups. Two groups that have attracted concern when it comes to underachievement are gifted children and boys.
Shaun Hately, G. Townend
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Mentalizing underachievement in group counseling: Analyzing the relationship between members' reflective functioning and counselors' interventions.

Psychological services, 2019
This study concerns an innovative group counseling method, the narrative mediation path (NMP), which aims to promote mentalization on underachievement among university students. The study analyzes a single NMP case with the aim of investigating whether a
G. Esposito, S. Karterud, M. Freda
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The underachieving child

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1998
SummaryVisual 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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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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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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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 ...
Muijs, R D., Lindsay, G.
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