Underachievement: Useful construct or misleading illusion

Underachievement: Useful construct or misleading illusion UNDERACHIEVEMENT : USEFUL CONSTRUCT OR MISLEADING I LLUSIO I\i MERVILLE C. SHAW Chiw Slate CoUege, California Within the last ten years there has been a tremendous upsurge in the amount of research done on the topic of academic underachievement. This research has had little focus and even large volumes reporting on the various studies on underachieve- ment (Kornrich, 1965) fail to synthesize existing research into any useful t