
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
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Analysing Underachievement in Schools
About this book
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, 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. This book 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 will consider the 'crisis' account; of falling standards and failing pupils and, on the other, present an alternative account, which urges a re-evaluation of the underachievement debate in order to consider who might be underachieving and why.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1 Introducing underachievement
- 2 Underachievement and national educational crisis accounts
- 3 Reconsidering the āfailing nationā debates
- 4 Failing boys and āmoral panicsā
- 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
- Appendix 1 Further details of research methods
- Appendix 2 Multiple regression model for identifying underachieving students
- Appendix 3 Profiles of students who were identified as underachieving
- Glossary of terms and acronyms
- References
- Index