O for overachiever

Overachievers are individuals who "perform better or achieve more success than expected." [1]
The implicit presumption is that the "overachiever" is achieving
superior results through excessive effort. In a teaching context, an
"overachiever" is an educational label applied to students, who perform better than their peers when normalised for the instructor's perceptions of background,
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Published on April 17, 2014 06:42
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