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un·der·a·chieve·ment

(ŭn'dĕr-ă-chēv'mĕnt),

Failure to achieve as well as one's abilities would seem to allow.

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Dr Michael Ward, of Swansea University, looks at the reasons and circumstances that can create educational 'underachievement' in young working-class men

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'First playoff berth, they never accomplished that [before] so I don't think that's an underachievement. I think that's an accomplishment and they just got to keep building off of it.'

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Academic underachievement is considered to be one of the major important area related to the children's education and is continuously being studied for the last few decades (McCoach and Siegle, 2011).

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Whether it's an overachievement or underachievement, I definitely feel it's been a big improvement."

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Currently, you're working on your doctoral dissertation, focusing on student and teacher perceptions of academic achievement and underachievement. What are the biggest misconceptions of those issues from those groups?

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But inspectors said the pace of change had been too slow to reduce what they called a "significant deficit of underachievement" inherited from the academy's two predecessor schools.

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Therefore, academic failure or academic underachievement would result in low self-efficacy and low outcome expectations, which in turn leads to low interest in certain domains.

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Release date- 23052013 - A leading expert in the psychology of gender and sexuality has been awarded an international scholarship to investigate issues with academic underachievement among ethnic minorities.

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15 ( ANI ): Former Pakistan fast bowler qib Javed has described the underachievement of talented fast bowler Wahab Riaz.

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Language, literacy, and pedagogy in postindustrial societies; the case of black academic underachievement.

Language, literacy, and pedagogy in postindustrial societies; the case of black academic underachievement

Two in five fell short of the basic skills, and Kieran Donnelly, Comptroller and Auditor General, said more must be done to tackle the growing problem of underachievement.