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(Mis)understanding underachievement: a response to Connolly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In British Journal of Sociology of Education Volume 29 number 3, 2008, Connolly presented what he termed a 'critical review' of some of our previous work on the relative attainment of male and female students in UK schools.
Gorard, Stephen, Smith, Emma
core   +1 more source

The effect of self-determination skills training on Academic Vitality and Academic Hope [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات روانشناسی تربیتی
The 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
doaj   +1 more source

Choosing school underachievement as a way to resist power [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik 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
doaj   +1 more source

How school counselors perceive students’ underachievement [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2013
Although providing support to underachievers has always been an important domain of activities of school counselors in school, there are almost no studies in our country that focus on the opinion of school counselors on the problem of ...
Gutvajn Nikoleta, Ševkušić Slavica
doaj   +1 more source

How do you know that he's bright but lazy? Teachers' assessments of Bangladeshi English as an Additional Language pupils in two Year Three classrooms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article considers how teachers come to assess pupils' needs and abilities and how pupils come to acquire particular identities in the classroom - particularly Bangladeshi pupils who are both English as Additional Language (EAL) pupils and minority ...
Walters, Sue
core   +1 more source

Resilience and Academic Underachievement in Gifted Students: Causes, Consequences and Strategic Methods of Prevention and Intervention

open access: yesInt. J. Online Biomed. Eng., 2019
Extensive research and numerous reviews have been conducted in the last years, concerning gifted students. The present review aims at investigating the special personality traits of the resilient gifted students, targeting to the development of strategic
A. Alexopoulou, A. Batsou, A. Drigas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Detecting Unfulfilled Potential: Perceptions of Underachievement by Student, Parents, and Teachers

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Education, 2020
Beliefs about academic functioning play an important role in the academic development of students. This study considers perceptions about underachievement, that is, the degree to which accomplishments are believed to be in line with potential.
J. Lavrijsen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Psychometric analysis of underachievement tool for gifted students

open access: yesCogent Education
This study aimed to develop a comprehensive tool to assess underachievement in gifted students, incorporating input from parents, teachers, and students themselves.
Marilena Z. Leana-Taşcılar
doaj   +1 more source

Differences in Personal, Familial, Social, and School Factors Between Underachieving and Non-underachieving Gifted Secondary Students

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Using various identification methods, differences between underachieving and non-underachieving gifted students in personal, familial, social, and school variables were analyzed in a sample of 164 gifted students with IQs of 120 or higher; the sample was
Raquel Gilar-Corbi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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