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Academic Failure

Student’s unsuccessful attempt at academic achievement or a marked inadequacy in the areas of scholarship or study. This is not underachievement which is performance, usually in school work, poorer than that predicted from aptitude and/or intelligence testing.

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Abstract

Student’s unsuccessful attempt at academic achievement or a marked inadequacy in the areas of scholarship or study. This is not underachievement which is performance, usually in school work, poorer than that predicted from aptitude and/or intelligence testing.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Academic Failures
  • Failure, Academic
  • Failures, Academic

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Aspects Covered

2 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings psychology, trends.

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History Note

2018

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Previous Indexing

  • Educational Measurement (1966-2017)

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  1. N01.824w.196w.125w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Academic Failure. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000075022. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000075022
  2. Academic Failure. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_failure
  3. Academic Failure. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16684202