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Descriptor English: Academic Failure
Descriptor Spanish: Fracaso Escolar
Descriptor fracaso escolar
Entry term(s) fracaso académico
fracasos académicos
fracasos escolares
Scope note: Intento infructuoso de un estudiante de obtener logros académicos, o una notable insuficiencia en las áreas de escolaridad o estudio. No es lo mismo que bajo rendimiento, que es un rendimiento inferior al previsto por sus pruebas de aptitud o inteligencia.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fracasso Acadêmico
Descriptor French: Échec universitaire
Entry term(s): Academic Failures
Failure, Academic
Failures, Academic
Tree number(s): N01.824.196.125
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000075022
Scope note: Student’s unsuccessful attempt at academic achievement or a marked inadequacy in the areas of scholarship or study. This is not underachievement which is performance, usually in school work, poorer than that predicted from aptitude and/or intelligence testing.
Allowable Qualifiers: PX psychology
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Educational Measurement (1966-2017)
Public MeSH Note: 2018
History Note: 2018
DeCS ID: 57329
Unique ID: D000075022
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Date Established: 2018/01/01
Date of Entry: 2017/07/11
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Academic Failure - Preferred
Concept UI M000628891
Scope note Student’s unsuccessful attempt at academic achievement or a marked inadequacy in the areas of scholarship or study. This is not underachievement which is performance, usually in school work, poorer than that predicted from aptitude and/or intelligence testing.
Preferred term Academic Failure
Entry term(s) Academic Failures
Failure, Academic
Failures, Academic



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