The gifted underachiever in school: A student who has a problem or a 'rebel' making problems? [PDF]
Psihologija, 2010 The main goal of this research was to study the correlates of school underachievement and to sketch the possible profile of the gifted underachiever. The study was conducted on a sample of high school students in Belgrade (N = 434).
Jovanović Vitomir +3 more
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The Dynamic Effects of Subconscious Goal Pursuit on Resource Allocation, Task Performance, and Goal Abandonment [PDF]
, 2015 We test two potential boundary conditions for the effects of subconscious goals—the nature of the goal that is activated (achievement vs. underachievement) and conscious goal striving. Subconscious achievement goals increase the amount of time devoted to
Bell, Bradford S, Sitzmann, Traci
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Failing boys and moral panics: perspectives on the underachievement debate [PDF]
, 2003 The paper re-examines the underachievement debate from the perspective of the ‘discourse of derision’ that surrounds much writing in this area.
Arnold R. +44 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Underachievement in school during early adolescence predicts future economic and personal difficulties. Particular neurocognitive skills on the domain of executive functions start to mature during adolescence. This fact and the physical and psychological
Tamara evan Batenburg-Eddes +1 more
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Conceptualising Gifted Student (Dis) Engagement through the Lens of Learner (Re) Engagement
Education Sciences, 2020 It is well-recognised that disengagement is a growing problem in schools across the globe. Furthermore, statistics show that nearly 60% of all gifted students are not actualising their potential, exposing the loss of potential for both the individual and
Michelle Ronksley-Pavia +1 more
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Life priorities of underachievers in secondary school [PDF]
Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2010 There is a predominant belief in literature and school practice that high school achievement is an important precondition for optimal professional development and success in life, as well as that school failure is a problem that should be dealt with ...
Gutvajn Nikoleta
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Educational potential, underachievement, and cultural pluralism [PDF]
, 2008 The term 'underachievement' is widespread in modern educational discourse, invoked most frequently in relation to a perceived failure to reach 'potential'.
Gillies, Donald
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Poor attention rather than hyperactivity/impulsivity predicts academic achievement in very preterm and full-term adolescents [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Very preterm (VP) children are at particular risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) of the inattentive subtype. It is unknown whether the neurodevelopmental pathways to academic underachievement are the same as in the ...
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The effect of self-determination skills training on Academic Vitality and Academic Hope [PDF]
مطالعات روانشناسی تربیتیThe aim of this study was to investigate the effect of self-determination skills training on academic vitality and academic hope in underachievement gifted students. This study was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and control group.
zahra tabatabaee +2 more
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Choosing school underachievement as a way to resist power [PDF]
Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2006 Underachievement in school is seen as a failure in traditional theories of education. An alternative construction of school underachievement, from the point of view of Michel Foucault’ s approach to power and George Kelly's principle of elaborative ...
Džinović Vladimir +2 more
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