Analysing underachievement in schools /
Smith, Emma (Professor)
Analysing underachievement in schools / Emma Smith. - xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Empirical studies in education . - Empirical studies in education. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index.
Introducing underachievement -- Underachievement and national educational crisis accounts -- Reconsidering the 'failing nation' debates -- Failing boys and 'moral panics' -- Reconsidering underachieving students -- What is underachievement? -- Measuring underachievement -- Measuring low achievement -- Understanding underachievement -- So, what works? Strategies to close the achievement gap -- Further details of research methods -- Multiple regression model for identifying underachieving students -- Profiles of students who were identified as underachieving. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3.
"Underachievement in school is one of the most widely used terms in education today. As a discourse it has been responsible for influencing government policy and staffroom discussions, as well as the pages of academic journals and the TES. It is also a subject which raises questions about what we expect from a fair and equitable education system. Analysing Underachievement in Schools provides a critical analysis of two sides of the underachievement debate, at each of the three levels of focus - international, the UK and the individual. On the one hand, it considers the 'crisis' account of falling standards and failing pupils and, on the other, presents an alternative which urges a re-evaluation of the underachievement debate in order to consider who might be underachieving and why."--BOOK JACKET.
0826475655 9780826475657
2005284380
Academic achievement.
Underachievement
Education and state
LB1062.6 / .S65 2005
371.28
Analysing underachievement in schools / Emma Smith. - xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Empirical studies in education . - Empirical studies in education. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index.
Introducing underachievement -- Underachievement and national educational crisis accounts -- Reconsidering the 'failing nation' debates -- Failing boys and 'moral panics' -- Reconsidering underachieving students -- What is underachievement? -- Measuring underachievement -- Measuring low achievement -- Understanding underachievement -- So, what works? Strategies to close the achievement gap -- Further details of research methods -- Multiple regression model for identifying underachieving students -- Profiles of students who were identified as underachieving. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3.
"Underachievement in school is one of the most widely used terms in education today. As a discourse it has been responsible for influencing government policy and staffroom discussions, as well as the pages of academic journals and the TES. It is also a subject which raises questions about what we expect from a fair and equitable education system. Analysing Underachievement in Schools provides a critical analysis of two sides of the underachievement debate, at each of the three levels of focus - international, the UK and the individual. On the one hand, it considers the 'crisis' account of falling standards and failing pupils and, on the other, presents an alternative which urges a re-evaluation of the underachievement debate in order to consider who might be underachieving and why."--BOOK JACKET.
0826475655 9780826475657
2005284380
Academic achievement.
Underachievement
Education and state
LB1062.6 / .S65 2005
371.28