Early cochlear implantation supports narrative skills of children with prelingual single-sided deafness by Tine Arras, An Boudewyns, Ingeborg Dhooge, Andrzej Zarowski, Birgit Philips, Christian Desloovere, Jan Wouters, Astrid van Wieringen

“…Abstract Prelingual single-sided deafness (SSD) not only affects children’s hearing skills, but can also lead to speech-language delays and academic underachievement. Early cochlear implantation leads to improved spatial hearing, but the impact on language development is less studied. …”
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Exploring BAME Student Experiences in Healthcare Courses in the United Kingdom: A Systematic Review by CALLUM GREWAL, MOHAMMED KHAN, JASMIN PANESAR, SIMAL ASHER, NAVJYOT MEHAN

“…Introduction: Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in healthcare-related courses are exposed to various challenging experiences compared to their White counterparts, not only in the UK (United Kingdom) but across the globe. Underachieving, stereotyping, racial bias, and cultural differences, among other experiences, hinder their medical education, practice, and attainment. …”
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The Effect of the Secret Agent Society Group Program on Parent-Teacher Agreement Regarding Children’s Social Emotional Functioning by Shannon Gasparro, Shannon Bennett, Katarzyna Wyka, Andrea Temkin-Yu, Andreas Damianides, Renae Beaumont

“…These can contribute to difficulties forming friendships and secondary challenges such as academic underachievement, depression, and substance use in adolescence. …”
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Got Skillz? Recasting and Negotiating Racial Tension in Teacher–Student Relationships Amidst Shifting Demographics by Chonika Coleman-King, Valerie Adams-Bass, Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Duane Thomas, Celine Thompson, Ali Michael, Gwendolyn Miller, Bianka Charity-Parker, Howard Stevenson

“…This paper reports on a curriculum designed for Black students whose school teachers and administrators sought to address concerns about students’ academic underachievement and behavioral challenges. In order to design the curriculum, we examined Black students’ reactions to race- and academic-related stress as a result of their interactions with mostly White teachers and peers in an increasingly diversifying predominantly White, middle-class community. …”
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Impulsive and compulsive reading comprehension in the prison population by Lucas Muñoz-López, Francisca Serrano, María del Carmen López-Torrecillas, María Blasa Sánchez-Barrera, Ignacio Martín, Francisca López-Torrecillas

“…Dyslexia is strongly associated with academic underachievement, as well as impulsive, compulsive, and criminal behaviors. …”
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The course of vocational functioning in patients with schizophrenia: Re-examining social drift by Gabriela Vargas, Martin Strassnig, Samir Sabbag, Felicia Gould, Dante Durand, Laura Stone, Thomas L. Patterson, Philip D. Harvey

“…In addition to low rates of employment, people with schizophrenia have been reported to be underachieved compared to other family members. Among the causes of this vocational impairment may be cognitive deficits and other skills deficits, as well as social factors impacting on opportunities for employment. …”
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Inter-ethnic and mono-ethnic families: examining the association of parenting and child emotional and behavioural adjustment by Tan, Jo Pei

“…Literature suggests that inter-ethnic children are not only one of the fastest growing populations in the last decade, but also show a higher prevalence of risk factor for poor outcomes, including family breakdown, academic underachievement and psychology maladjustment. The present research explores whether ethnicallymixed children are less well psychologically adjusted when compared to children from mono-ethnic families. …”
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Protocol for a longitudinal study investigating the role of anxiety on academic outcomes in children on the autism spectrum. by Dawn Adams, Stephanie Malone, Kate Simpson, Madonna Tucker, Ron M Rapee, Jacqui Rodgers, Deb Keen

“…<h4>Background</h4>Children on the autism spectrum are consistently reported to underachieve compared to ability. In typically developing children, anxiety is a strong predictor of poor school performance. …”
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Re-examining the quantum volume test: Ideal distributions, compiler optimizations, confidence intervals, and scalable resource estimations by Charles H. Baldwin, Karl Mayer, Natalie C. Brown, Ciarán Ryan-Anderson, David Hayes

“…Additionally, we explore the original confidence interval construction and show that it underachieves the desired coverage level for single shot experiments and overachieves for more typical number of shots. …”
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Effectiveness of Multimedia Courseware Based Instruction on Senior School Students’ Retention in Linear Equation Word Problems by Ridwan Enuwa Mohammed, Khadijat Saka Ameen, Ayuba Bala

“…The increasing popularity of Multimedia courseware in education aims to address the challenges posed by abstract concepts and the consequent underachievement of students. It is also relevant to consider the limitations of working memory resources during multimedia courseware based instruction of abstract concepts in order to evaluate irrelevant factors that create unwanted cognitive drain and make retention difficult. …”
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Framework for automatically suggesting remedial actions to help students at risk based on explainable ML and rule-based models by Balqis Albreiki

“…Abstract Higher education institutions often struggle with increased dropout rates, academic underachievement, and delayed graduations. One way in which these challenges can potentially be addressed is by better leveraging the student data stored in institutional databases and online learning platforms to predict students’ academic performance early using advanced computational techniques. …”
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Montserratian mothers' and English teachers' perceptions of teaching and learning by Windrass, G, Nunes, T

“…As the children settled into English schools, the pattern of underachievement observed with previous West Indian immigrants started to repeat itself. …”

Ethnicity, gender, social class and achievement gaps at age 16: intersectionality and 'Getting it' for the white working class by Strand, S

“…Parents' educational aspirations for their child and students' own educational aspirations, academic self concept, frequency of completing homework, truancy and exclusion could account for the minority ethnic advantage at low SES, but conditioning on such factors simultaneously indicates substantial ethnic underachievement at average and high SES. Accounts of educational achievement framed exclusively in terms of social class, ethnicity or gender are insufficient and the results challenge educational researchers to develop more nuanced accounts of educational success or failure.…”

Prenatal alcohol exposure and educational achievement in children aged 8-9 years. by O'Leary, C, Taylor, C, Zubrick, SR, Kurinczuk, J, Bower, C

“…Low-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure was not associated with academic underachievement. CONCLUSIONS: The type of learning problems expressed depends on the dose, pattern, and timing of prenatal alcohol exposure.…”

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Music education and musicians: Expectations, course and outcomes by Bogunović Blanka, Dubljević Jelena, Buden Nina

“…This is indicative of a continuously present feeling of “hidden underachievement” in the group of (relatively) successful young musicians and professionals. …”
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Technology-based Learning and the Digital Divide for Deaf/Hearing Students During Covid-19: Academic Justice Lens in Higher Education by Abdallah AlShawabkeh, Faten Kharbat, Ajayeb Abu Daabes, M Lynn Woolsey

“…The results of this study suggest that DHH students in postsecondary settings may be at risk of underachieving in the distance learning study mode. As a result, higher education institutions, universities, and curriculum designers need to take steps to improve the environment of distance learning platforms considering the diversity of students’ needs. …”
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The experiences of medical students with ADHD: A phenomenological study. by Megan Godfrey-Harris, Sebastian Charles Keith Shaw

“…University students with ADHD underachieve academically and tend to have lower levels of self-esteem. …”
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Genome-wide association testing in malaria studies in the presence of overdominance by Morine Akoth, John Odhiambo, Bernard Omolo

“…Since GWAS (and haplotype-associations) also utilize allelic tests, it is unclear to what degree GWAS could underachieve because heterosis is ignored. Methods In this study, a two-step approach to genetic association testing in malaria studies in a GWAS setting that may enhance the power of the tests was proposed, by identifying the underlying genetic model first before applying the association tests. …”
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Multi-temporal urban growth analysis with expansion indicators in Lucknow constituency by open-source data, India by Ravi Verma, Pradeep Kumar Garg

“…Urban sprawl in metropolitan cities of India is a distressing concern for planners. Not only, it is underachieved but it is neglected. This study attempts to help in understanding the gap by studying urban sprawl in 5 assembly constituencies (ACs) of Lucknow city of India, through urban growth indicators such as urban growth types (Infilling, Edge-expansion and outlying), Shannon’s Entropy value and Landscape metrics (Complexity, Compactness, Centrality and Porosity). …”
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