The phrase "academic deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lack of knowledge, skills, or competencies in an academic context, often referring to students or educational systems.
Example: "The school implemented new programs to address the academic deficit observed in the students' performance on standardized tests."
Alternatives: "educational shortfall" or "learning gap".
"Five or 10 years ago, students didn't repeat unless there was something broke that needed to be fixed, a presiding academic deficit, an illness or some disturbance in the family pattern," says Gregg Maloberti, dean of admissions at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.
Future research should begin to identify further malleable factors at the school and country levels in order to address the academic deficit between immigrant and native students.
Our findings may allow researchers to now focus on investigating malleable factors to address this academic deficit between immigrant and native students instead of continuing to focus on whether or not a gap exists between these students.
"It's a classic false choice, pitting two groups of well-intentioned parents against each other while the real problem — a criminally short school day — lives on in spite of all we know about what students with academic deficits need," Mr. Broy said.
To determine the evolution of cognitive and academic deficits and risk factors in children after liver transplantation.
Early life stress including childhood maltreatment has been associated with reduced head circumference and/or brain size, cognitive, and academic deficits in children and adolescents.
Despite being repeatedly discredited, again in the 1990's the notion of the pseudo-science called The Bell Curve postulated black and brown academic deficits were due to their inherent inferiority.
This finding suggests that group differences in working memory cannot be accounted for entirely by differential academic deficits.
The WHO Task Force review found the prognosis for children after MTBI to be good, with symptoms resolving within two to three months and little to no evidence of any lasting cognitive or academic deficits [ 3].
Bellinger, Stiles, and Needleman, for example, found that lead exposure at 2 years of age predicted academic deficits as measured by the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement at 10 years of age [ 9].
We examined other reasons for the group differences (apart from diagnosis per se) by covarying for IQ, gender, academic deficits relative to IQ, comorbid depressive symptoms, and comorbid conduct symptoms.
