Causes of underachieving gifted students:
- School factors:
- Excessive absences
- Lack of interest in the subject
- The curriculum isn't challenging
- Low teacher expectations
- Dual exceptionalities, minority population, and students from low-income
- Dual exceptionalities, minority population, and students from low-income
- Undiagnosed learning disabilities
- Clash between instructional style and student learning style
- No extracurricular involvement
- Social issues/ peer pressure
- Poor academic environment
- Excessive absences
- Family factors:
- Unclear behavior expectations
- Disorganized family environment
- Lack of parental support/ emotional involvement
- Parental unpredictability and mixed parental messages
- Low emphasis on education
- Differing parental styles at home
- Excessive independence given to the child
- Excessive control retained by parent
- Unclear behavior expectations
- Personal factors:
- Environmental disturbances
- Psychological issues
- Emotionally sensitive
- Perfectionism
- Poor mental health
- Emotionally sensitive
- Behavioral disturbances
- Poor self- concept
- Perfectionism
- Fear of failure
- Depression
- External locus of control
- Environmental disturbances