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Direct linkZook, Joan M.; Russotti, Justin M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
This study examined early adolescents' beliefs about which academic self-presentation strategies hypothetical hard-working, high-achieving students should use with popular peers, adolescents' own use of self-presentation strategies, and links between popularity and self-presentation strategies. In response to scenarios in which popular classmates…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Peer Acceptance, High Achievement, Grades (Scholastic)
Ludden, Alison Bryant – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2012
The current research examines how social goals and perceptions of what is needed for social status at school relate to school misbehavior and substance use among rural adolescents (N = 683). Results indicate that social goals and perceptions of social status have differential links to problem behaviors depending upon adolescents' achievement.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Social Status, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement
Wilkins, Andrew – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
In this paper I draw on ethnographic observation data taken from a school-based study of two groups of 12-13-year-old pupils identified as high achieving and popular to explore how relations between teachers and pupils are mediated and constituted through the spectre of neoliberal values and sensibilities--zero-sum thinking, individualism and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Student Relationship, Citizenship, Females
Rentzsch, Katrin; Schutz, Astrid; Schroder-Abe, Michela – Journal of Experimental Education, 2011
The present investigation addresses the question of whether certain factors can protect high-achieving students at risk for being labeled a nerd against devaluation. In 2 studies, 125 and 317 students from Grade 8 evaluated vignettes describing average students and students who were called "nerds." Results indicate that being modest…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Stereotypes, At Risk Students, Grade 8
Francis, Becky; Skelton, Christine; Read, Barbara – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
In spite of research showing that pupils--particularly boys--tend to experience tension between high academic achievement and popularity with peers at school, some pupils continue to maintain simultaneous production of both. This article focuses on a sample of 12-13 year-old pupils, identified as high achieving and popular, to examine classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Peer Acceptance, Students
