Underachievement

Program of Assessment, Diagnosis and Instruction - - Program of Assessment, Diagnosis and Instruction (PADI) is an elementarty school program that finds and fosters potential giftedness among minority and poor children. PADI seeks to nurture higher level thinking skills among these underachieving students.

What You Can Do to Reverse Underachievement in Your Classroom. - - Gifted students are one group of exceptional learners who are not normally considered at risk for academic failure. However, the underachievement of academically gifted students is an area of concern and frustration for many parents, teachers, and counselors.

The Underachievement of Gifted Students: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? - - Article by Sally Reis and D. Betsy McCoach reviews studies on underachievement among the gifted. It explores some of the problems of identifying these students and provides suggestions for helping them according to today's research findings. (2000)

Helping the Underachieveing - - Includes recommendations and considerations for helping underachievers. (1994)

Academic Underachievement Among the Gifted: Students' Perceptions of Factors That Reverse the Pattern - - Article by Linda Emerick details the main areas that G/T students felt were crucial in being able to reverse a pattern of underachievement in their lives. (1992)

Underachieving Gifted Students - - Strategies to reverse underachievement. (1990)