Social Status
True or False?
Adolescents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may face academic challenges linked to limited access to adequate nutrition and healthcare.
True or false?
Boys do less homework, watch more TV, and read fewer books on their own.
True
When the student has normal intelligence but struggles in one or more academic areas.
What is a learning disability?
These students often demonstrate advanced abilities in areas like problem-solving, creativity, or intellectual understanding, and may require differentiated instruction to stay challenged.
What are Gifted Students?
True or False?
Middle-class parents are more likely than lower-class parents to have an authoritative parenting style that contributes to their children's school success.
True.
What are gender roles?
Expectations and behaviors that society considers appropriate for men and women.
True or False?
Boys are twice as likely than girls to have a learning disability?
True
This characteristic of gifted children refers to their intense focus and motivation to deeply learn and excel in an area of interest, often spending long periods mastering a topic or skill.
What is a drive for mastery?
This inequality arises when schools receive funding based on local property taxes.
What is School funding inequality?
Why do students from lower SES backgrounds sometimes struggle more in school?
They may have fewer resources, more stress at home, and less access to tutoring or academic support
What is the academic area that is the most common source of difficulty for students with learning disabilities?
What is Reading?
This trait of gifted adolescents refers to early signs of advanced abilities, such as reading, writing, or doing math sooner than typical peers, often appearing in childhood rather than suddenly in adolescence.
What is Precocity?