Underachievement
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Receipt of special education services following elementary school grade retention.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: To estimate the proportion of children who receive an Individualized Education Program (IEP) following grade retention in elementary school. DESIGN: Longitudinal cohort study. PARTICIPANTS: Children retained in kindergarten or first (K/1) ... Read more...

Early math matters: kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes.

29 Apr 2009 Children's number competencies over 6 time points, from the beginning of kindergarten to the middle of 1st grade, were examined in relation to their mathematics achievement over 5 later time points, from the end of 1st grade to the end of 3rd grade. ... Read more...

Academic procrastination: associations with personal, school, and family variables.

29 Apr 2009 Procrastination is a common behavior, mainly in school settings. Only a few studies have analyzed the associations of academic procrastination with students' personal and family variables. In the present work, we analyzed the impact of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Underachievement'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Receipt of special education services following elementary school grade retention. 30 May 2009
• Early math matters: kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes. 29 Apr 2009
• Academic procrastination: associations with personal, school, and family variables. 29 Apr 2009
• Academic delay of gratification, self-efficacy, and time management among academically unprepared college students. 30 Mar 2009
• Factors associated with cell phone use in adolescents in the community of Madrid (Spain). 30 Mar 2009
• Academic performance in ADHD when controlled for comorbid learning disorders, family income, and parental education in Brazil. 27 Feb 2009
• Objective criteria for classification of postsecondary students as learning disabled: effects on prevalence rates and group characteristics. 16 Feb 2009
• Smoking behavior and ethnicity in Jujuy, Argentina: evidence from a low-income youth sample. 30 Dec 2008
• A critical evaluation of the evidence supporting the practice of behavioural vision therapy. 30 Dec 2008
• Self-reported childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms are not specific to the disorder. 20 Nov 2008
• Academic performance of ethnic minorities in medical school. 17 Aug 2008
• Commentary: An "ethnic minority" medical student. 16 Aug 2008
• Ethnic stereotypes and the underachievement of UK medical students from ethnic minorities: qualitative study. 16 Aug 2008
• Educational and occupational underattainment in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a controlled study. 30 Jul 2008
• Inhibited and aggressive preschool children at 23 years of age: personality and social transitions into adulthood. 29 Jun 2008
• Neighborhood and community factors: effects on deviant behavior and social competence. 29 Apr 2008
• Under-achievers: do you terminate them or turn them around? 29 Apr 2008
• Academic underachievement among children with epilepsy: proportion exceeding psychometric criteria for learning disability and associated risk factors. 29 Apr 2008
• Attributions for school success and failure by adolescent students with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 30 Mar 2008
• Effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development: an application of propensity score method to multivariate, multilevel data. 28 Feb 2008

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Technical information about 'Underachievement'

Definition: Performance, usually in school work, poorer than that predicted from aptitude and/or intelligence testing.

Descriptor UI: D014477

Alternative terms: Underachievement; Underachievements;

Tree Number: F02.784.629.880;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: no qualif