Formerly titled "Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works", the author believes this book is the definitive manual on gifted advocacy for gifted students. The author tells parents and teachers how to document a child's abilities to provide reasonable educational options year by year. This book provides imperative information on…

Examines definitions of "gifted" and "underachiever," identifying factors considered when assigning these terms. Reports on a study of underachieving, gifted, working-class boys that found the label "underachieving" to be falsely applied when these boys are content with their social position and life-style. (Author/AEM)

Proposes a model for understanding child and adolescent achievement problems. Suggests four dimensions of a family's learning environment: (1) family communication deviances; (2) family structure; (3) family attributions; and (4) family achievement values. Offers metaphor of family as "primary classroom." (Author/ABL)

Notes that, although comorbidity with specific learning disabilities is less frequent than commonly reported, externalizing behavior disorders, particularly attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, often overlap with various indices of academic underachievement during childhood. Discusses issues surrounding multimodality treatment programs and…

This reprinted 1985 article with a 1988 update discusses the identification of underachievement, especially in gifted children. It describes the Achievement Identification Measure, a parent report that measures certain underachievement characteristics including the ability to cope with competition, responsibility, self-control, positive…

Using various official sources (such as Ofsted reports), the article explores competing conceptions of the under-achieving school which have been operationalised in recent years. It suggests that there have been multiple, potentially conflicting definitions in policy discourse to which recent innovations have merely added a further layer of…

Describes female math underachievement and counseling or teaching techniques being implemented on college campuses to alleviate math anxiety. Students derive unique benefits from being taught research and statistics courses by female professors. To be effective, female professors must embody distinct feminist roles and perspectives. Specific…

Presents a descriptive model of an alternative secondary education program with program evaluation procedures, which provide a nontraditional school atmosphere for secondary students who are unable to function productively in their home school. (Author)

Explores school counselor's role in helping gifted students develop effective strategies to reduce desire to underachieve or overextend. Examines how self-inflicted stress can lead gifted students to invoke either copout behavior (overt reduction in achievement) or burnout behavior (maintaining facade of high achieving while succumbing to physical…

This handbook synthesizes results of workshops organized by seven countries (India, Pakistan, Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam) on the dropout and underachievement problem. The objectives of these workshops were to: (1) design training strategies for reducing rates of dropping out and grade repetition; (2) develop plans and…

Presents a transcontextual model for intervening with families of underachieving school children. Reviews the literature, and presents the model with specific guidelines for implementation. Results of a pilot study indicate an improvement of general school functioning and of grade point averages in 81.3 percent of those surveyed. (Author/MCF)

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…

This model, designed for counselors to assist underachieving adolescents, uses interaction between family memory and school personnel for academic skill development, tutoring, and vocational preparation. Instructional interventions are linked to client learning objectives and students needs are fully assessed. (JAC)

This article examines how schools can ensure the well-being of gifted children. It discusses the benefits of acceleration and critiques the practice of cooperative learning. The need to challenge gifted students in highly systematic and informed ways, wherein learning takes place just within intellectual reach, is urged. (Contains 1 reference.)…

The article examines intellectual, educational, social, and personality factors affecting the achievement of the gifted female during the very early years. Influences of differential achievement from parental and teacher behaviors, the media, toys and play are discussed and strategies for nurturing behaviors and attitudes more conducive to adult…