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Analysing underachievement in schools / Emma Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical studies in educationPublisher: London ; New York : Continuum, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0826475655
  • 9780826475657
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.28 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1062.6 .S65 2005
Contents:
1. Introducing underachievement -- 2. Underachievement and national educational crisis accounts -- 3. Reconsidering the 'failing nation' debates -- 4. Failing boys and 'moral panics' -- 5. Reconsidering underachieving students -- 6. What is underachievement? -- 7. Measuring underachievement -- 8. Measuring low achievement -- 9. Understanding underachievement -- 10. So, what works? Strategies to close the achievement gap -- App. 1. Further details of research methods -- App. 2. Multiple regression model for identifying underachieving students -- App. 3. Profiles of students who were identified as underachieving.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index.

1. Introducing underachievement -- 2. Underachievement and national educational crisis accounts -- 3. Reconsidering the 'failing nation' debates -- 4. Failing boys and 'moral panics' -- 5. Reconsidering underachieving students -- 6. What is underachievement? -- 7. Measuring underachievement -- 8. Measuring low achievement -- 9. Understanding underachievement -- 10. So, what works? Strategies to close the achievement gap -- App. 1. Further details of research methods -- App. 2. Multiple regression model for identifying underachieving students -- App. 3. Profiles of students who were identified as underachieving.

"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.

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