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Direct linkVeas, Alejandro; Castejón, Juan-Luis; O'Reilly, Colm; Ziegler, Albert – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
The underachievement of gifted students is a serious problem in gifted education. Although analytic research strategies have identified many causes of underachievement, this kind of approach still needs to be complemented by synthetic research strategies. The actiotope model of giftedness, for example, suggests that the effect of educational…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Academically Gifted, Secondary School Students, Parent Participation
Arco-Tirado, Jose L.; Fernandez-Martin, Francisco D.; Fernandez-Balboa, Juan-Miguel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The purposes of this study were, on one had, to determine the impact of a peer tutoring program on preventing academic failure and dropouts among first-year students (N = 100), from Civil Engineering, Economics, Pharmacy, and Chemical Engineering careers; while, on the other hand, to identify the potential benefits of such tutoring program on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests
