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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Underachieve"”.
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Why do so many white working class boys underachieve? An exploration of underpinning factors and beliefs
… in understanding why working class boys underachieve.
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Building Community in the Classroom for Culturally Linguistically Economically Diverse Gifted Learners
… learners in a semirural school district who underachieve. The central research question was, how does actively building classroom community interact with CLED gifted learners who underachieve? The research questions were the following: What are educators’ perceptions of CLED gifted learners …
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Principals' Perceptions on Educating Elementary Students who are Gifted
… A primary reason for students who are gifted to underachieve in academics is equated to school factors including lack of instructional resources, social/emotional support, and teachers who are unprepared to teach students who are gifted. The purpose of this phenomenological research study is to …
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Harnessing Technology: Art Therapy as Early Intervention in School-Based Counseling for Latino Adolescents with Low SES
… lower socioeconomic status families continue to underachieve within the public educational setting. The cycles of violence and poverty are becoming more widespread and cannot be broken without prevention and early intervention. The Art Therapy intervention described in this grant harnesses …
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Didelių pasiekimų, gabių ir savo gebėjimų nerealizuojančių 5-8 klasių mokinių pasiekimų ypatumai /
… one in three gifted students in grades 5-8 were underachievers. Girls more often exhibit high academic achievements regardless of intelligence, while boys more likely to underachieve. All groups had fewer difficulties, but gifted underachievers had more emotional and behavioral difficulties than …
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Developing Academic Self-Efficacy: Strategies to Support Gifted Elementary School Students
… their academic self-efficacy, causing them to underachieve.</p> <p>The purpose of this research is to document the best practices for helping gifted elementary school students develop their self-efficacy. Interviews with educators of gifted students reveal strategies elementary school teachers …
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Identifying most significant predictors of low mathematics achievement in African American male middle school students
… data of academic achievement finds the group to underachieve significantly (Garibaldi, 2007). The purpose of this study is to examine variables which significantly predict lower levels of math achievement in regards to African American males. This study also examines variables that predict low …
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The impact of task difficulty on self-regulated learning (SRL) processes in gifted students
… and that broadly impact whether they achieve or underachieve. This study employed a within-subjects design administered in two stages. In Stage 1, Honors College students completed data analysis problems of varying difficulty levels. After each problem, students rated the difficulty level. …
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Acting White Among Black College Students: A Phenomenological Study of Social Constructions of Race
… to hearing the label does not cause them to underachieve academically, but does have an impact on their social actions. The ways in which Black college students in the study were labeled as acting white was based on academic pursuits, speech patterns, dress, and hobbies. Student reactions to …
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The relationship between anxiety, working memory and academic performance among secondary school pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties: a test of Processing Efficiency Theory
… populations and with targeted populations who underachieve in school. The<br/>empirical paper aimed to test the application of PET and ACT for pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). It investigated whether the negative<br/>impact of anxiety on academic performance …
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Young, gifted and underachieving: examining the role of mentoring in assisting underachieving highly-able students achieve their educational potential.
… examine reasons why pupils of high ability might underachieve and to address these issues through the use of a mentoring project. The mentors used positive psychology and metacognition strategies in an effort to get the students to achieve their potential. Another aim of the study was to consider …
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Self-concepts and socioemotional functioning of children with Mild Intellectual Disability (MID) and parents' attributions for their children's academic struggles
… has shown that children with MID are likely to underachieve academically (e.g., Karande et al., 2008). Frequent experiences of academic difficulty may relate to the development of negative academic self-perceptions, especially amongst children with MID attending full-time regular education …
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Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm proud!: a study of successful Black female students educated in an urban middle school
… of "acting White," many Black students underachieve, conceal their academic talents, or make no efforts to pursue academic goals. For Black female high-achieving students, "acting White" is laden with gender-specific strategies of "silence" to cope with the tension they experience …
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“You kind of just have to give up on that dream”: Saskatchewan women’s and men’s experiences with fertility gaps
… has shown that women and men are more likely to underachieve, than overachieve, their child number preferences (Quesnel-Valleé & Morgan, 2003). Such discrepancies between preferences and reality are known as fertility gaps (Chesnais, 2000; Phillipov, 2009). This thesis sought to further the …
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Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation as Predictors of Academic Motivation among Undergraduate Students in the United States
… school and disengage from learning activities or underachieve (Wang & Pomerantz, 2009). Although the lack of academic motivation is correlated with deficiency in self-regulation and self-efficacy, relatively little studies have been conducted to examine the impact of these factors on academic …