Analysing Underachievement in Schools
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Analysing Underachievement in Schools

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780826494870
eBook ISBN
9781847143204
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of tables
  3. List of figures
  4. Preface
  5. 1 Introducing underachievement
  6. 2 Underachievement and national educational crisis accounts
  7. 3 Reconsidering the ā€˜failing nation’ debates
  8. 4 Failing boys and ā€˜moral panics’
  9. 5 Reconsidering underachieving students
  10. 6 What is underachievement?
  11. 7 Measuring underachievement
  12. 8 Measuring low achievement
  13. 9 Understanding underachievement
  14. 10 So, what works? Strategies to close the achievement gap
  15. Appendix 1 Further details of research methods
  16. Appendix 2 Multiple regression model for identifying underachieving students
  17. Appendix 3 Profiles of students who were identified as underachieving
  18. Glossary of terms and acronyms
  19. References
  20. Index