Underachievement

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A 3-year longitudinal study of self-concept and classroom behavior of grade 1 retained pupils.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between repeating Grade 1, self-concept scores, and classroom behavior. In Canada, a large number of pupils repeat grades. The literature on repeating a grade suggests that this practice has no ...
Alain Cadieux (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
-year-longitudinal-study-self-concept-classroom-behavior-grade-.asp

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Treating boys with low school achievement and behavior problems: comparison of two kinds of intervention.

Children with low school achievement frequently have behavior problems and interpersonal difficulties that pose a risk for psychosocial maladjustment. 39 boys were assessed and randomly assigned to one of two group treatment conditions: (a) interpersonal ...
Luciana Carla dos Santos Elias, Edna Maria Marturano, Ana Maria de Almeida Motta, Alessandra Gaspar Giurlani (Psychol Rep, 200302)
treating-boys-low-school-achievement-behavior-problems-comparison-two.asp

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Absenteeism and under-achievement in final year medical students.

BACKGROUND: Absenteeism among medical students has received little attention in the literature. The aim of this study was to determine the causes of absenteeism from didactic lectures in ophthalmology and its correlation with performance in formative ...
Upreet Dhaliwal (Natl Med J India, 200301-02)
absenteeism-under-achievement-final-year-medical-students.asp

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Violence risk and protective factors among youth held back in school.

OBJECTIVE: To identify risk and protective factors for violence perpetration among youth with a history of grade retention. DESIGN: Longitudinal analysis of in-home interviews of 13,781 adolescents in grades 7 through 12 conducted in 1995 and 1996. ...
Iris Wagman Borowsky, Marjorie Ireland, Michael D Resnick (Ambul Pediatr, 200211-12)
violence-risk-protective-factors-youth-held-back-school.asp

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Victimization in South Korean childrens peer groups.

This study reports a cross-sectional investigation of the behavioral, academic, and psychosocial correlates of victimization in South Korean childrens peer groups. The participants were 122 children (66 boys, 56 girls; from 10-12-years-old) recruited ...
David Schwartz, JoAnn M Farver, Lei Chang, Yoolim Lee-Shin (J Abnorm Child Psychol, 200204)
victimization-south-korean-children-s-peer-groups.asp

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Teachers reports of the problem behavior of children in their classrooms.

Research examining teachers judgments of childrens behavior has typically used archival data, staged videos, or written vignettes describing childrens behavior. The main advantage of using staged videos and written vignettes has been that those ...
Nicole C Molins, James R Clopton (Psychol Rep, 200202)
teachers-reports-problem-behavior-children-classrooms.asp

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Project Eagle: techniques for multi-family psycho-educational group therapy with gifted American Indian adolescents and their parents.

This article describes Project Eagle, a model for short-term psycho-educational therapy with gifted and talented American Indian adolescents and their parents. Descriptions of Project Eagle s program organization as well as its culturally relevant ...
Rockey Robbins, Stuart Tonemah, Sharla Robbins (Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res, 2002)
project-eagle-techniques-multi-family-psycho-educational-group.asp