PS276 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social Promotion, Crystallization, Socioeconomic Status
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Achievement is the psychosocial domain concerning behaviours and feelings in evaluative situations. Social roles and achievement: the transition from school to work is a socially defined transition, a passage that society has determined will be negotiated during adolescence. Self-handicapping: some adolescents want to appear uninterested in school, these students may use self-handicapping strategies such as joking in class, studying last minute, or partying excessively the night before an exam as a way of self protection. Educational achievement: educational achievement is defined in three ways, school performance (the grades students earn, academic achievement (their performance on standardized tests, educational attainment (the number of years of schooling they complete) Intellectual ability is assessed by iq tests and correlated with performance on achievement tests: grades in school and educational attainment are influenced by a range of factors, teachers" evaluations of students", family living arrangements/ background.
