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Intelligence and early academic underachievement
Author(s) -
Kroft Susan B. Wetstein,
Ratzlaff Harold C.,
Perks Barbara A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1986.tb00685.x
Subject(s) - psychology , incidence (geometry) , developmental psychology , intellectual ability , intelligence quotient , demography , psychiatry , cognition , physics , sociology , optics
This investigation examined the early incidence of underachievement among a sample of intellectually average, bright and superior grade one students (ranging in age from 6:3 to 7:3 years) in order to assess the relative incidence of underachievement among children of differing intellectual levels. Overall, 20 per cent of the students were identified as underachievers. However, underachievers were found to be equally represented among these three groups.