Underachievement

• Academic underachievement among the gifted: Students' perceptions of factors that reverse the patter
  Article by Linda Emerick; studies young gifted people who have gone through periods of underachievement and have pulled themselves out of this pattern. It details the main areas that these students felt were crucial in being able to reverse the pattern of underachievement in their lives.
  

• Gifted and Talented - Gifted Underachievers
  Characteristics, strategies, and other helpful information.
  

• GT: Underachievement and the Gifted Student
  links to articles and papers on underachievement in gifted students.
  

• Program of Assessment, Diagnosis and Instruction
  Program of Assessment, Diagnosis and Instruction (PADI) is an elementarty school program that finds and fosters potential giftedness among minority and poor children. PADI seeks to nurture higher level thinking skills among these underachieving students.
  

• The underachievement of gifted students: What do we know and where do we go?
  This full text article by Sally Reis and D. Betsy McCoach reviews years of studies on underachievement among the gifted. It explores some of the problems of identifying these students and provides suggestions for helping them according to today's research findings
  

• Underachieving Gifted Students
  strategies to reverse underachievement.