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Talented and Gifted
<p>The following is part of a novel in addition to one short story and one piece of creative nonfiction I have worked on over the last three years.</p>
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The GREAT Reading Project (Gifted Readers Enhance Academic Talent): a gifted-on-gifted, cross-age tutoring and mentoring intervention
The GREAT (Gifted Readers Enhance Academic Talent) Reading Project is a quasi-experimental, between-group study that evaluated a 13-week before-school student tutoring/mentoring reading and literacy program. The study examined the effects of the intervention on reading achievement for each group …
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Perceptions of Gifted Education: An Examination of One School District’s Gifted Program Compared to Nationwide Gifted Programs for Best Practices
<p>In this study, I aimed to examine the gifted program in one school district in comparison to nationwide gifted programs to identify best practices. The review of literature consists of three primary foci, which question whether (a) there is a threat of underrepresented students in the gifted …
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Identifying Principal Leadership Practices to Effectively Support Gifted Learners and Gifted Programs
The success of gifted learners and gifted programs in public schools depends upon principals who are well versed in the needs of gifted learners (Gallagher and Gallagher, 1994). Principal leadership in setting direction, developing people, and redesigning the organization influences teaching and …
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Underachieving Profoundly Gifted Adolescents
<p>Underachieving Profoundly Gifted Adolescents is a phenomenological study that explores the lived experiences of five underachieving profoundly gifted adolescents. Profoundly gifted individuals are those whose IQ scores are at the 99.9th percentile. This study was a means to explore factors that …
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Academically gifted adolescents transferring to an independent gifted school: Effects on academic identity
<p>Four gifted adolescents (2 males and 2 females) explore experiences transferring from multilevel schools to an independent gifted school from low- and high-income school districts in this phenomenological study. Semi-structured interviews inform this study demonstrating how changes in school …
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An Examination of Attitudes and Actions of Regular Classroom and Gifted Teachers Toward Differentiating for Gifted Learners Involved in a Pullout Gifted Program
… the attitudes and actions of regular and gifted teachers toward differentiating instruction for gifted learners to find out: (a) the types of differentiated instruction regular classroom teachers use for gifted learners, (b) the differences in gifted teachers' lesson plans from regular …
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A survey of literature on gifted child programs and suggested activities for the gifted
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Gifted education and ideology: the growth of the gifted education movement in South Africa
Although the provision of education for gifted pupils has been widely criticised as elitist by liberals and radicals alike, this charge has never been specifically substantiated. In this dissertation, the relationship of socially defined giftedness to social power is explored from two major …
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Math Attitudes of Gifted Students: A Focus on Gifted Girls in the Elementary Grades
This study explored the math attitudes of gifted students in grades three, four, five, and six participating in an accelerated math program with a focus on gifted girls in the elementary grades. Eight of the nine domains of the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scale (MAS) were used to survey …
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Identifying Gifted Students in Science
… standard protocol to identify students who are gifted in science. If students are identified as gifted early on in elementary school, teachers and parents can foster their interest, increasing the students’ knowledge, value, and affect as well as their willingness to re-engage science (Eccles & …
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Sensory Sensitivities of Gifted Children
To parents and teachers, gifted children often display behavioral characteristics that appear quite different from the general population. Research on the gifted has focused on topics such as emotional sensitivity and creativity. However, very little has been reported regarding the study of the …
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Where Their Children Belong: Parents' Perceptions of the Boundaries Separating 'Gifted' and 'Non-Gifted' Educational Programs
… academic programs--a majority white Gifted and Talented ("G&T") program and a majority black and Latino General Education ("Gen Ed") program. It asks how the meanings that parents make about their available school choice options and their sense of "place" within the school system and …
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Perspectives on Equity in Gifted Education
… in education and calls for equity make gifted education a controversial topic. While much has been written about certain aspects of equity, such as underrepresented groups in gifted education, little research has examined a more complex view of what makes a gifted education program …
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The Label "Gifted:" A Critical Analysis
… the phenomenon of labeling (i e., the label "gifted") contextually and transcontextually via mute evidence, formal and informal interviews, and visuals. A four-faceted prism (history, politics, sociology, phenomenology) serves as the lens through which the participants (including the …
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