NAGC 57th Annual Convention & Exhibition
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Measuring attitudes related to underachievement
Track
:
Research and Evaluation
Program Code:
540
Date:
Friday, November 12, 2010
Time:
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
EST
Room:
C108
CO-PRESENTER
:
Del Siegle, Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
PRESENTER
:
D. Betsy McCoach, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
Description
How do we identify gifted students who are most at risk for underachievement? How do we measure factors related to their underachievement? What self-report measures can we use to determine the efficacy of interventions designed to remediate underachievement? In this session, we review the challenges inherent in identifying underachievers and measuring underachievement. We also present two instruments, the School Attitude Assessment Instrument- Revised (SAAS-R) and the Challenges to Scholastic Achievement Scale (CSAS). Both instruments have been developed to measure factors related to underachievement in middle and high school aged students.
