Underachievement (Latest Articles)

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The effects of educational placement and grade level on the self-perceptions of low achievers and students with learning disabilities.

29 Apr 1994 Previous studies have yielded mixed findings as to the effect of learning disabilities (LD) on self-perception. We proposed that perceived competence in children who experience learning difficulties is affected both by age trends in self-appraisal ...
rec_pub_8006510-the-effects-educational-placement-grade-level-self-perceptions-low.htm

Predictors of early grade retention among children in the United States.

27 Feb 1994 BACKGROUND. Despite increasing concerns regarding school readiness, little is known about child health correlates of early school failure among the general child population. The results of this study, conducted to investigate health and social ...
rec_pub_8115209-predictors-early-grade-retention-children-united-states.htm

Using self-recording, evaluation, and graphing to increase completion of homework assignments.

30 Jan 1994 This article describes the use of self-monitoring procedures to increase the number of daily homework assignments completed by eight students with learning disabilities. Students ranged in age from 13 to 16 years and attended Grades 7 through 10. ...
rec_pub_8195690-using-self-recording-evaluation-graphing-increase-completion-homework.htm

The prevalence of specific arithmetic difficulties and specific reading difficulties in 9- to 10-year-old boys and girls.

30 Jan 1994 Data from an epidemiological sample (n = 1206) of British schoolchildren were used to estimate the proportions of 9- to 10-year-olds with specific arithmetic difficulties (SAD), combined with arithmetic-and-reading difficulties (ARD), and specific ...
rec_pub_8188799-the-prevalence-specific-arithmetic-difficulties-specific-reading.htm

Geographic mobility and children's emotional/behavioral adjustment and school functioning.

30 Jan 1994 OBJECTIVE. To evaluate the relationship of geographic mobility to children's emotional/behavioral adjustment and school functioning. DESIGN. Analysis of data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey of Child Health in which multistage ...
rec_pub_8121745-geographic-mobility-children-s-emotional-behavioral-adjustment-school.htm

Using assessment-based curricular intervention to improve the classroom behavior of a student with emotional and behavioral challenges.

30 Dec 1993 We evaluated a process of descriptive assessment, functional assessment, and assessment-based intervention with an elementary-school child who was described as having emotional and behavioral challenges, but who also exhibited above-average ...
rec_pub_8188564-using-assessment-based-curricular-intervention-improve-classroom.htm

Self-destructiveness in adolescence.

30 Dec 1993 This study is an attempt to formulate the dynamics of the group of adolescents involved in major drug use and other antisocial behavior. As consultant to a drug rehabilitation center for teenagers, the author has had occasion to interview and ...
rec_pub_7992866-self-destructiveness-adolescence.htm

School consultation and the management of obsessive-compulsive personality in the classroom.

30 Dec 1993 The need for a comprehensive assessment involving areas of ability, personality, and motivation when young people are referred to a mental health service with problems of school failure is discussed. Traits associated with obsessive-compulsive ...
rec_pub_7832021-school-consultation-management-obsessive-compulsive-personality.htm

The VCOP Scale: a measure of overprotection in parents of physically vulnerable children.

30 Oct 1993 A scale is developed for measuring the overprotecting vs. optimal developmental stimulation tendencies for parents of physically "vulnerable" children. A series of items were administered to parents whose parenting techniques had been rated as ...
rec_pub_8300867-the-vcop-scale-measure-overprotection-parents-physically-vulnerable.htm

Intellectual performance and school failure in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and in their siblings.

30 Oct 1993 We made psychiatric and intellectual assessments of 140 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 120 normal controls, and their 303 siblings. The index children were white, non-Hispanic boys. ADHD children were more likely to ...
rec_pub_8282932-intellectual-performance-school-failure-children-attention-deficit.htm

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