Title: SAGE Reference - Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology
Headings: Cultural Deficit Model
Cultural Deficit Model
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The cultural deficit model (hereafter referred to as the deficit model) is the perspective that minority group members are different because their culture is deficient in important ways from the dominant majority group. The field of educational psychology has long been interested in understanding why racially different, non-White children perform differently in school, with an emphasis on academic underachievement. The deficit model has been important in the evolution of thinking about this important social issue. Hence, the deficit model asserts that racial/ethnic minority groups do not achieve as well as their White majority peers in school and life because their family culture is dysfunctional and lacking important characteristics compared to the White American culture. Other names for the deficit model have been cultural disadvantage, cultural ...
Entry
Crystallized Intelligence
Entry
Cultural Diversity
Classroom Achievement
Acceleration
Alternative Academic Assessment
Bell Curve
Direct Instruction
Educational Technology
Failure, Effects of
Gifted and Talented Students
Goals
Grade Retention
Grading
Halo Effect
Home Environment and Academic Intrinsic Motivation
Homework
Intelligence and Intellectual Development
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Intelligence Tests
Literacy
Media Literacy
Parental Expectations
Personalized System of Instruction
Precision Teaching
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Rubrics
Spelling
Test Anxiety
Classroom Management
Calculator Use
Cheating
Contingency Contracts
Cooperative Learning
Curriculum Development
Discovery Learning
Distance Learning
Early Intervention Programs
Educational Technology
Effective Teaching, Characteristics of
Mainstreaming
Montessori Schools
School Design
School Resources
Students' Rights
Time-Out
Token Reinforcement Programs
Virtual Schools
Vocational Education
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Development and School Readiness
Conservation
Deductive Reasoning
Egocentrism
Equilibration
Field Independence–Field Dependence
Flashbulb Memories, the Nature of
Inductive Reasoning
Intelligence and Intellectual Development
Literacy
Long-Term Memory
Measurement and Cognitive Development
Metacognition and Learning
Moral Development
Motivation and Emotion
Object Permanence
Perceptual Development
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Schemas
Short-Term Memory
Spelling
Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Theory of Development
Zone of Proximal Development
Ethnicity, Race, and Culture
African Americans
American Indians and Alaska Natives
Asian Americans
Bilingual Education
Bilingualism
Communication Disorders
Cultural Deficit Model
Cultural Diversity
Culture
Diversity
Ethnicity and Race
Head Start
Hispanic Americans
Identity Development
Immigration
Multicultural Classrooms
Multicultural Education
Families
Child Abuse
Conflict
Divorce
Domestic Violence
Early Child Care and Education
Family Influences
Home Education
Homeless Families
Intelligence and Intellectual Development
Parent–Teacher Conferences
Parenting
Parenting Styles
Gender and Gender Development
Androgyny
Gender
Gender Bias
Gender Differences
Gender Identity
Identity Development
Sexual Orientation
Single versus Coed Gender Education
Health and Well-Being
Abstinence Education
Athletics
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Behavior Disorders
Brain-Relevant Education
Communication Disorders
Conduct Disorders
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Disabilities
Drug Abuse
Dyslexia
Eating Disorders
Extracurricular Activities
HIV/AIDS
Learning Disabilities
Malnutrition and Development
Mental Health Care in Schools
Mental Retardation
Obesity
School Counseling
Sex Education
Special Education
Suicide
Human Development
Acculturation
Aggression
Androgyny
Anxiety
Aptitude
Athletics
Attachment
Attachment Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Behavior Disorders
Creativity
Early Intervention Programs
Egocentrism
Emotion and Memory
Emotional Development
Empathy
Equilibration
Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development
Extracurricular Activities
Friendship
Gifted and Talented Students
Head Start
Identity Development
Individual Differences
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Intelligence and Intellectual Development
Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Motivation
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
Mainstreaming
Maslow's Hierarchy of Basic Needs
Maturation
Mental Retardation
Metacognition and Learning
Moral Development
Motivation
Motivation and Emotion
Motor Development
Myelination
Neuroscience
Peer Influences
Perceptual Development
Physical Development
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Risk Factors and Development
School Violence and Disruption
Self-Determination
Self-Efficacy
Self-Esteem
Special Education
Test Anxiety
Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Theory of Development
Intelligence and Intellectual Development
Crystallized Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence
Intelligence and Intellectual Development
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Intelligence Tests
Multiple Intelligences
Perceptual Development
Stanford–Binet Test
Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Language Development
Bilingual Education
Bilingualism
Communication Disorders
English as a Second Language
Language Disorders
Phonics
Private Speech
Speech Disorders
Learning and Memory
Adult Learning
Assistive Technology
Aversive Stimuli
Behavior Modification
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Brain-Relevant Education
Classical Conditioning
Cognitive and Cultural Styles
Cognitive View of Learning
Cooperative Learning
Discovery Learning
Discrimination
Distance Learning
Divergent Thinking
Educational Technology
Emotion and Memory
Episodic Memory
Explicit Memory
Flashbulb Memories, the Nature of
Habituation
Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Motivation
Learning
Learning Communities
Learning Disabilities
Learning Strategies
Learning Style
Lifelong Learning
Long-Term Memory
Malnutrition and Development
Maturation
Memory
Metacognition and Learning
Mnemonics
Motivation and Emotion
Observational Learning
Older Learners
Operant Conditioning
Peer-Assisted Learning
Perceptual Development
Premack Principle
Reinforcement
Rosenthal Effect
Shaping
Short-Term Memory
Social Learning Theory
Stimulus Control
Working Memory
Organizations
American Educational Research Association
National Assessment of Educational Progress
National Center for Education Statistics
Peers and Peer Influences
Athletics
Behavior Disorders
Bullying
Cheating
Cliques
Competition
Cooperative Learning
Culture
Discipline
Diversity
Drug Abuse
Eating Disorders
Extracurricular Activities
Friendship
Gangs
Gender Differences
Inclusion
Mainstreaming
Multicultural Education
Peer-Assisted Learning
School Violence and Disruption
Public Policy
Abstinence Education
Assistive Technology
Bilingual Education
Charter Schools
Child Abuse
Early Child Care and Education
English as a Second Language
Ethics and Research
Gangs
Grade Retention
Head Start
High-Stakes Testing
Home Education
Immigration
Inclusion
Individualized Education Program
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Institutional Review Boards
Intelligence Tests
Least Restrictive Placement
Mainstreaming
No Child Left Behind
Poverty
School Design
School Violence and Disruption
Sex Education
Special Education
Students' Rights
Testing
Tracking
Vouchers
Research Methods and Statistics
T Scores
Case Studies
Confidence Interval
Correlation
Cross-Sectional Research
Descriptive Statistics
Ethics and Research
Ethnography
Experimental Design
External Validity
Field Experiments
Frequency Distribution
Generalizability Theory
Inferential Statistics
Internal Validity
Longitudinal Research
Mean
Median
Meta-Analysis
Mode
Naturalistic Observation
Normal Curve
Percentile Rank
Qualitative Research Methods
Quantitative Research Methods