TY - BOOK ID - 391774 TI - Against the odds : disadvantaged students who succeed in school. AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. AU - Programme for International Student Assessment. PY - 2011 SN - 1283224070 9786613224071 9264090878 9264089950 PB - Paris : OECD, DB - UniCat KW - Students with social disabilities KW - Academic achievement KW - Social aspects KW - Academic underachievement KW - Achievement, Academic KW - Educational achievement KW - Scholastic achievement KW - Scholastic success KW - School achievement KW - Student achievement KW - Underachievement, Academic KW - Performance KW - Success KW - People with social disabilities KW - Students with disabilities KW - Academic performance KW - Academic progress KW - Academic success KW - Achievement, Scholastic KW - Achievement, Student KW - Performance, Academic KW - Progress, Academic KW - School success (Academic achievement) KW - Success, Academic KW - Success, School (Academic achievement) KW - Success, Scholastic UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:391774 AB - Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. This publication focuses on students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged background. The report shows that overcoming barriers to achievement is possible, and provides students, parents, policy makers and other education stakeholders insights into what enables socio-economically disadvantaged students to fulfill their potential. Resilient students are characterized by positive approaches to learning, for example, having more interest in science or having more self-confidence. The evidence in PISA shows that positive approaches to learning tend to boost the performance of advantaged students more than that of disadvantaged ones. From an equity perspective, therefore, policies aimed at fostering positive approaches to learning ought to target disadvantaged students more than others.--Publisher's description. ER -