Preventing Severe Underachievement and Developing Achievement Motivation.

Whitmore, Joanne Rand

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Publication Date: 1986

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Preventing Severe Underachievement and Developing Achievement Motivation.

Whitmore, Joanne Rand

Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, v18 n3-4 p119-33 Spr-Sum 1986

Gifted children learn to underachieve as they struggle to cope with discomforting psychological conflicts in the classroom. Using the underachieving gifted program in Cupertino, California as an example, the article provides basic information to guide intervention efforts aimed at preventing or reversing patterns of academic underachievement during the first three years of school. (PS)

Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Emotional Adjustment, Exceptional Persons, Gifted, Intervention, Learning Readiness, Performance Factors, Primary Education, Special Education Teachers, Underachievement

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