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Academic achievement refers to the level of scholastic accomplishment reached by a child or adolescent. Although they are never completely separate from one another, it is critically important to differentiate learning levels from fundamental intelligence. While fundamental intelligence is the intellectual capacity with which each individual is born, scholastic accomplishment represents the extent to which an individual has been able to respond to instruction (i.e., to use their inborn intelligence to process information and thereby learn). Individuals are most comfortable when their academic achievement levels are equivalent to their basic intelligence.
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Moss, N.E., Moss-Racusin, L. (2021). Academic Achievement. In: Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychological Testing. Best Practices in Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73515-9_13
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