In Fall 1963, to find which reasons for attending college are related to over- and underachievement, entering freshmen at Casper College were given a Card Sort of Reasons. It listed 36 statements, to be rated on a 1-8 scale of importance. Overachievers, predicted achievers, and underachievers were determined by a multiple regression equation…

THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF TEST INTERPRETATION MAKE IT INAPPROPRIATE FOR PROGRAMED METHODS WAS EXAMINED BY TWO METHODS OF TEST RESULT COMMUNICATION--PROGRAMED MATERIALS AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION BY A COUNSELOR. DEPENDENT VARIABLES WERE MEASURES OF EMOTIONAL AROUSAL RECORDED BY SKIN CONDUCTANCE UNITS AND THE GAIN IN…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF CERTAIN VARIABLES WITH THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF PUPILS OF SUPERIOR INTELLECTUAL ABILITY WAS PRESENTED. THE HYPOTHESIS USED WAS THAT HIGH ACHIEVING ACADEMICALLY GIFTED PUPILS COMPARED TO LOW ACHIEVING ACADEMICALLY GIFTED PUPILS RECEIVED THE BENEFIT OF MORE FAVORABLE PARENTAL ATTITUDES. THE PUPILS PERCEIVED THEMSELVES AS MORE…

There are a number of apparent similarities between dropouts and academic achievers: both groups have been described as alienated and impulsive, and both can be difficult counselees because they reject some traditional values. This investigation focused on the behaviors and attitudes of a group of 23 male college sophomores who were academic…

Fourth-grade students were administered the Estes Attitude Scale to measure attitudes towards core academic subjects. When results were compared with test results of actual school performance, it was found that both extreme overachievers and underachievers had poorer attitudes toward core subjects than had other more accurately predicted…

Summarizes an intensive survey of current research undertaken in an attempt to identify cognitive factors related to discrepant achievement of economically deprived black and white rural first graders--i.e. students whose achievement was at a level unpredicted by diagnostic testing. (JM)

Examines specific learning problems and points out additional problems when a student is an overachiever in one area and an underachiever in another. (JOW)

This study confirmed the hypothesis that the Junior Index of Motivation Scale successfully differentiates between college bound and noncollege bound junior high school students. (RC)

Reports on a comparison of the performances of over-achievers, achievers, and under-achievers in mathematics on measures of general anxiety, test anxiety, and mathematics anxiety. The results confirm the hypothesis that the measure of mathematics-specific anxiety differentiates the under-achieving group from the other two groups more strongly than…

Richards, Gaver, and Golicz (1984) found that, in contrast to peers whose grades were accurately predicted from performance on aptitude tests, both extremely underachieving and extremely overachieving fourth-graders had negative academic attitudes. The present study aimed to replicate and extend these findings. Subjects in the replication study…

Attitudes of male and female college students are compared after having taught a successful or unsuccessful simulated student who was labeled as either an underachiever or overachiever. The data showed that the performance of the child was the major factor in determining the teachers' attitudes. (Author/RC)

This article reports on the characteristics of students classified as being over or underachievers. The concepts of over and underachievement are most frequently defined in terms that relate to expectations based on ability measures. During the past 30 years there have been attempts to isolate the causal determinants of achievement. Variables such…

Results indicate that the sex difference in over-achievement is probably an artifact of the sex differences in major field choice. (Author)

Provides additional evidence concerning the efficiency of Edward's need achievement scale as a supplement to standard tests of academic aptitude in predicting academic achievement and to discriminate between over- and under-achievers. Also examines an alternative to overall GPA as the criterion for studies of academic achievement. (RC)

This investigation was designed to explore the differences between 6th grade underachievers, average achievers, and overachievers in reading in their later achievement and behavior and to compare relationships to reading achievement that occur for students with high socio-economic status (SES) background and low SES background, and students with…