Expanding teaching possibilities frontier by understanding your underachieving learners

• Main Author: How, Pei Lin *
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Sunway College Kuala Lumpur 2015
• Subjects: LB Theory and practice of education; LB2300 Higher Education
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/295/1/How%20Pei%20Lin.pdf; http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/295/

This paper studies one of the nine types of academic underachievers that is, the struggling learners that are undertaking Australian-based Pre-University programmes. Primary qualitative data are gathered via interviews, aiming to explore learners’ self-perception, self-discipline and motivation le...