Risk factors for School Failure: Examining the Interaction of Entrance Age, IQ, and Social Skills

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather J. Bachman ◽  
Mary E. Kienstra
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Tania Gaspar ◽  
Ana Cerqueira ◽  
Cátia Branquinho ◽  
Margarida G. Matos

In the middle of the 20th century, there was a shift from a skills deficit approach to a positive approach, focused on promoting assets and individual strengths. The role of social-emotional competences became salient. School is a privileged arena for universal and selective prevention interventions that can help pupils in raising their competence to cope with life challenges in a relaxed, non-violent and effective way. Personal and social-emotional skills play a key role in children and adolescents’ development, as well as their behavior towards risk factors and there is a need to evidence-based interventions. The scale “For me it’s Easy” is an evaluation tool for personal and socio-emotional skills and was used to assess the effect of a Social and Emotional Skills Promotion Program. Personal and social skills play a key role in children and adolescents’ development, as well as their behavior towards risk factors. The study includes an intervention group with 960 Portuguese children and adolescents with a mean age of 12.5 years (SD = 1.61) and included were 56.8% boys of different educational levels. The waiting-list group included 171 children and adolescents; 46.2% were boys. The mean age was 14.7 years and the SD was 3.3. The results reveal significant differences in the intervention group related to the competences before and after the intervention, namely in the interpersonal relationships and definition of goal related skills, while in the waiting list group there were no significant differences in the moment before and after the intervention, and the scale “For me it’s Easy” can be considered an instrument which contributes to the research and evaluation of intervention in children and adolescents, especially in the prevention and promotion of personal and social skills and healthy development.


2021 ◽  
pp. 014303432110632
Author(s):  
Zhu Zhu ◽  
Emiko Tanaka ◽  
Etsuko Tomisaki ◽  
Taeko Watanabe ◽  
Yuko Sawada ◽  
...  

Self-care ability and social skills are potential areas of difficulty for preschool children. However, values about young children's self-care ability are different worldwide. This longitudinal study examined the influence of early self-care ability on social skills at the end of the preschool years. Participants were 509 children recruited from kindergartens and child care centers across Japan, whose self-care ability and social skills were assessed at baseline year and three years later (Age of children in 2015 at baseline: M  =  35 months, SD  =  6.1 months). The study found that gender was significantly associated with social skills, while preschool facility entrance age was only associated with assertion skills. After controlling gender and entrance age, early self-care ability was still positively related to later assertion and cooperation (Assertion: OR  =  2.55, 95% CI  =  1.00–6.51; Cooperation: OR  =  3.15, 95% CI  =  1.23–8.07). Implications of the findings are discussed in the context of cultural diversity, highlighting the importance of cultivating children's age-appropriate self-care ability based on daily observations and evaluations.


Author(s):  
Emily S. Fisher ◽  
Kelly S. Kennedy ◽  
Brianna Meshke McLay

This chapter reviews strategies for working with students who are at risk for school failure or dropout. Because each of the populations discussed in the earlier chapters may be at risk for dropout or failure, this chapter builds upon previous strategies by providing a framework for targeting motivation and academic enabling skills (e.g., note taking, study skills). It describes risk factors (both membership in certain groups and personal risk factors) that may contribute to school failure or dropout. It also addresses the need to distinguish between skills/acquisitions deficits and performance deficits in identifying the reasons a student is struggling academically, is chronically truant, or is at risk of dropping out. Counseling strategies to address motivation and academic enabling skills include motivational interviewing, solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and group counseling.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Rafael Marcos Sánchez ◽  
Maria del Carmen Diéz González

ResumenLos datos estadísticos y algunos estudios nos plantean la relevancia del problema del fracaso escolar en España, los porcentajes de abandono temprano son preocupantes. Este fracaso escolar se relaciona con la no adquisición de un aprendizaje significativo debido a las dificultades en el aprendizaje, a las relaciones con sus compañeros, a la escasa comprensión lectora, etc.: estos generan percepciones erróneas y emociones negativas que influyen en el rendimiento escolar. Por ello, es importante evaluar la relación entre los diferentes aspectos que nos permitan fomentar el aprendizaje de habilidades sociales de forma preventiva.En esta investigación hemos utilizado un modelo relacional entre la percepción y el rendimiento en la asignatura ciencias de la naturaleza y las habilidades sociales de toma de conciencia y control emocional, conversacionales, la cooperación y ayuda mediante el trabajo, las relacionadas con la defensa de los propios derechos, las socio - emocionales y de vida y bienestar subjetivo como mejora de la calidad de vida. La muestra de la investigación es de 445 estudiantes de los cursos de tercero a sexto de Primaria de varios centros educativos. Los resultados obtenidos nos muestran que existe significatividad entre la percepción y las habilidades socio - emocionales con respecto al rendimiento y, por lo tanto, se comprueba el impulso motivacional en el rendimiento si mejoramos la percepción mediante dichas habilidades socio – emocionales y el desarrollo en el aula de programas y metodologías activas, como aprendizaje cooperativo y mindfulness, que mejoren el aprendizaje y reduzcan los conflictos en el aula.AbstractThe statistical data and some studies raise the relevance of the problem of school failure in Spain, the percentages of early abandonment are worrisome. This school failure is related to the lack of acquisition of significant learning due to difficulties in learning, relationships with peers, insufficient reading comprehension, …; these generate erroneous perceptions and negative emotions that influence school performance. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the relationship between the different aspects that allow us to promote the learning of social skills in a preventive manner.In this research we have used a relational model between perception and performance in the subject natural sciences and social skills of consciousness and emotional control, conversational, cooperation and help through work, those related to the defense of own rights, socio-emotional and life and subjective well-being as improvement of the quality of life. The sample of the research is 447 students from the third to sixth year Primary courses from several educational centers. The results obtained show us that there is significance between perception and socio-emotional skills with respect to performance and, therefore, the motivational impulse in performance is proven if we improve perception through these socio-emotional skills and the development in the classroom of programs and active methodologies, as cooperative learning and mindfulness, that improve learning and reduce conflicts in the classroom.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. 1876-1890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Al-Yagon ◽  
Dovrat Forte ◽  
Lital Avrahami

Objective: Theoretical models suggest multiple underlying pathways for ADHD and multiple risk factors’ co-occurrence as impairing this population’s affective, interpersonal, and behavioral adjustment. After comparing groups’ executive functioning (EF) difficulties and attachment security with each parent, this study primarily aimed to examine four risk factors (ADHD, child-father attachment, child-mother attachment, EF) as possibly explaining children’s socioemotional/behavioral measures (externalizing/internalizing behavior, social skills, negative mood regulation). Method: Participants were 100 children in Grades 5-6 (ages 11-12 years; M=11.45 years, SD=.50): 50 with formally diagnosed ADHD, and 50 with typical development (TD). Instruments were children’s self-report measures and teachers’ evaluation. Results: Significant group differences emerged on all EF measures and attachment relationships, and most socioemotional/behavioral measures. Findings demonstrated the significant contribution of children’s ADHD, parental attachments, and, partially, EF difficulties in explaining children’s socioemotional/behavioral adjustment. Conclusion: Children with ADHD, compared to children with TD, reported significantly larger EF deficits and a significantly higher incidence of insecure attachment to the father as well as a lower sense of trust and closeness to the mother. Outcomes highlighted the role of children’s four risk factors (ADHD, child-father attachment, child-mother attachment, EF) in explaining their socioemotional/behavioral adjustment. The EF deficits contributed only to intrapersonal maladjustment.


1980 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Frank Oberklaid ◽  
Melvin D. Levine

School failure is pervasive. Its impact extends beyond the classroom and can contribute to emotional turmoil, social difficulties, delinquent behavior and lifelong maladjustment. School failure does not qualify as a disease, a syndrome, or a unique pathogenetic process. It is rather the product of constitutional predispositions that have interacted with environmental factors and life events in an ongoing process. Intrinsic handicaps may be subtle. Their outward manifestations are likely to vary from child to child and evolve with age, shaped by neurologic maturation, experience, and changing external expectations. Children with school problems form a heterogeneous group with diverse etiologies, symptom complexes, diagnostic findings and service needs. Nine common precursors of school failure are suggested in this review. Although presented individually, these precursors are not necessarily discrete, nor are they mutually exclusive; they may themselves stem from multiple factors. They are conceptualized as "risk factors" that may predispose to or foreshadow later failure. These, in turn, interact with a set of variables we have characterized as sources of "developmental buoyancy." The latter may neutralize or counteract early susceptibility to academic problems. Individual children may have one or multiple identifiable precursors of variable severity and differ in the extent to which they can minimize or overcome these potential predispositions to school failure.


2015 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. Carballo ◽  
María Marín-Vila ◽  
José P. Espada ◽  
Mireia Orgilés ◽  
José A. Piqueras

AbstractEmpirical evidence has revealed various factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of Internet abuse. The aim of this paper was to analyze, on a sample of Spanish adolescents, the relationship between Internet abuse and: (1) Personal and interpersonal risk factors, including social skills in both virtual and real-life contexts; (2) Drug use. A total of 814 high school students aged between 13 and 17 participated in this study, and were divided into two groups: Internet Abusers (IA = 173) and Non-Internet Abusers (NIA = 641). Questionnaires were used to analyze Internet and drug use/abuse, as well as social skills, in virtual and real contexts. Various interpersonal risk factors (family and group of friends) were also assessed. IA showed a more severe pattern of Internet and drug use, as well as poorer social skills in both contexts. Moreover, their groups of friends appeared more likely to become involved in risky situations related to Internet and drug abuse. Both IA and NIA showed more adaptive social skills in the virtual context than in the real one. There is a need for further research to build on these findings, with a view to designing specific preventive programs that promote responsible Internet use.


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