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Jenny Buontempo; Catherine Riegle-Crumb; Karisma Morton – Educational Researcher, 2025
This brief uses national data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 to investigate deficit beliefs, or beliefs that students' academic underperformance is primarily attributable to deficiencies in their home environments, among high school math teachers. Descriptive results reveal that students in low-level math courses have teachers…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Underachievement
Fong, Carlton J.; Kremer, Kristen P. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2020
Students' academic underachievement, defined as discrepancies between ability and academic performance, is a widespread problem leading to many negative consequences. Our study examines high school students' math underachievement, its motivational antecedents, and its impact on future math achievement, college attendance, and STEM (science,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Underachievement, High School Students, College Attendance