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- Self-concept, self-esteem and academic achievement: Strategies for maintaining self-esteem in students experiencing academic failurePublication . Peixoto, Francisco José Brito; Almeida, Leandro da SilvaPrevious research into the relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement shows that despite differences in academic self-evaluation, students’ global self-representations do not differ as a result of their grades at school. In this study, we will analyse the strategies that underachievers used to maintain their self-esteem at an acceptable level. The participants were 955 adolescents in the 7th, 9th and 11th grades at four secondary schools in Lisbon. Three hundred fifty-two of these students had retaken a year at least once in their school careers, whilst 603 had never done so. We collected the data using both a self-concept scale and a scale for evaluating attitudes towards school. Results show that self-esteem is maintained through positive self-representations in non-academic facets of self-concept and/or by devaluing school-related competences. They also show that younger students are less likely to maintain self-esteem by devaluing the school experience.
- Support teachers’ beliefs about the academic achievement of students with special educational needsPublication . Silva, José Maria Castro; Morgado, José António MarquesJosé Castro Silva, lecturer in sciences of education, and José Morgado, assistant professor, both work at the Instituto Superior de Psicologica Aplicada in Lisboa, Portugal. In this article, they describe their study of support teachers’ beliefs about the academic achievement of school students with special educational needs. The ‘support teachers’ who were the subject of this study work in mainstream schools where the majority of pupils with special educational needs are educated in mainstream classes run by ‘general teachers’. The work of the support teachers is supervised and supported by ‘special education team co-o rd i n a t o r s ’ . The study reported here set out to elicit the support teachers’ beliefs about the factors that contribute to success at school for pupils with special educational needs. Results suggest that the support teachers consider that factors including ‘school climate’, ‘curriculum design’ and ‘teaching approach’ contribute significantly to achievements among these pupils. On the other hand, analysis reveals that the support teachers attribute difficulties and lack of achievement significantly to ‘out-of-school’ contextual variables. These findings are related to a detailed review of the literature and the authors discuss the implications for policy, practice and professional development.