Essays about: "underachievement"

Found 4 essays containing the word underachievement.

1. 1. Educational Psychosocial Interventions Supporting Childrens’ Trauma Recovery and Academic Achievement : A Comparative Study of NRC’s Better Learning Programme in Gaza and IRC’s Tutoring in a Healing Classroom Program in Lebanon

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Silje Hansen Overvåg; [2023]
   Keywords : Psychosocial Support PSS ; Education in Emergencies EiE ; Social and Emotional Learning SEL ; Children Affected by Armed Conflict; Trauma Recovery; Education; Academic Underachievement; Humanitarian Interventions;

   Abstract : The number of children living in a conflict zone in 2021 reached a staggering 449 million, which represents more than one out of every six children (Save the Children, 2022). When children are exposed to armed conflict the experiences can impair cognitive and social and emotional function. READ MORE

3. 2. Behind the Academic Underachievement of Black Caribbean Children in the United Kingdom : Examining the Prevalence and Impacts of Structural Barriers and Teachers’ Low Expectations in the Schooling of Black Caribbean Children in the United Kingdom

   University essay from

   Author : Shewit Yemane; [2023]
   Keywords : Black Caribbean children; academic underachievement; teachers low expectations; self-efficacy.;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to understand the prevalence and impacts of structural barriers and teachers’ low expectations in the academic underachievement of Black Caribbean children in the United Kingdom. In doing so, this thesis has utilized the following two theories: systemic racism and self-efficacy. READ MORE

4. 3. Since reading is a girly thing: A study on boys’ underachievement in reading literacy in relation to PISA

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Elma Sudic; Sara Massoud; [2014]
   Keywords : gender differences; teaching methods; reading; literacy; PISA; underachievement; second language learning; boys; motivation;

   Abstract : Underachievement in reading literacy for boys in secondary school seems to be a generalnorm in many countries around the world today. PISA’s studies highlight that Sweden also isone of countries that has big differences in between the genders in reading literacy; moreover,the results showed that almost every third boy is underperforming in reading literacy. READ MORE

5. 4. What about the boys in school?Exploring the underachievement of boys in compulsory schools

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

   Author : Marina Garcia-Santos; [2013]
   Keywords : Gender differences; attitudes; underachievement; girls and boys; single-sex teaching;

   Abstract : The underachievement of boys in school seems to be the general norm in many countries. Many studies have tried to find the key to this problem; still, no one seems to have found it. Studies about brain research, boys’ attitudes or motivation are trying to find the final solution and the appropriate strategies to address the problem. READ MORE