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Smith, Emma – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
"Underachievement" has been one of the dominant discourses in education in recent times, but it is unclear what is meant by the term "underachievement", and there is no widely accepted way of defining or measuring it. This paper describes the final stage of a large study which used contextualised models to identify students who…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Overachievement, National Curriculum, Gender Differences