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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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A Study of Friendship Attitudes of Children Who Participate in Gifted Programs in the Public Schools
… in Grades 4, 5, and 6 who participate in gifted programs in the public schools in Missouri. A self-made, self-report instrument was completed by 211 students in twelve public school districts. Analysis was based on written responses and tabulation in percentages and means of objective …
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A Study of Gifted Programs in the State of Missouri and the Philosophies of Their Faculties
… study was to poll the faculties of Missouri's gifted programs to gather data concerning the programs and the philosophies of those who conduct them. A survey instrument mainly using a Likert scale was developed and mailed to an administrator, a classroom teacher, and a gifted resource room …
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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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Equitable Representation of Culturally Linguistically Economically Diverse Students in Intellectual Gifted Programs in School Divisions in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… Economically Diverse (CLED) students in gifted programs within their schools. Existing literature on CLED students was reviewed. Three years of data (school years 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019) obtained from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) were analyzed to determine …
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Gifted Education in Northeast Tennessee Public Schools: A Descriptive Study.
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine gifted education programs in public schools in Northeast Tennessee. There is a wide disparity among established gifted programs regarding the identification of the students, the eligibility of the students, and the services they receive. This disparity …
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Black and Gifted: Hiding In Plain View
… examines representation of African Americans in gifted programs in an urban school district where the creation of gifted programs was enacted as a tool for desegregation. The research is conducted from the perspectives of gifted African American students in an effort to shed some light on whether …
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Underrepresentation of Non-white Students in a Secondary Gifted Program: The Students’ Experience
Non-white students are underrepresented in gifted education. The purpose of this narrative case study is to describe the stories of non-white students who have graduated from the gifted programs in a Midwest suburban district. This study explored the history of gifted education, an examination of …
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Effect of students' behavioral characteristics on teachers' referral decisions in gifted education
… exist in regard to teacher nominations for gifted programs in the areas of student gender, ethnicity, and SES. On the other hand, there is a lack of research regarding behavioral characteristics of the student and the impact of those characteristics on teacher nominations to a gifted …
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Overcoming the Odds: The Success Story of an African American Gifted Male Student
… why some African American students included in gifted programs maintain academic and social success. Data from semi-structured interview responses, behavioral checklists, and personality traits rating scales were coded and themed as a means to tell Elijah's story. Currently a 20 year old African …
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Issues related to the education of gifted children in the United States: a Delphi study
… on important issues in the education of the gifted in the United States, and to answer the following questions: (1) Which key issues are perceived by the panel of experts as being the most important? (2) Which of the issues deserves top priority? (3) On issues deemed most important, what …
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Narrowing Attainment and Achievement Gaps of High School African American and Hispanic Students: Policy Advocacy Document
… revisions to school board policy regarding gifted programs and includes disaggregated metrics for the reporting of board goals based on race and socioeconomic status. The goal is to establish transparency and increase the enrollment and academic performance of low-income, African American, …
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Selection Criteria For Identifying Gifted And Talented Minority Students In Grades One Through Five In Central Mississippi
… weaknesses in the current system of identifying gifted students and (b) investigate the effectiveness of using the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test to identify underrepresented and gifted minority students in grades one through five in Central Mississippi. The study consisted of 12 students who …
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Diversity in education: changing faces
… culturally responsive teaching and analyze programs that impact non-Asian minority students in a suburban school district. The intern used observations, surveys, and interviews to study programs at the Charles W. Lewis Middle School in Blackwood, New Jersey. The research began by examining …
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A Study of the Reading Interests and Attitudes of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Gifted Children in the State of Missouri
… interests of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade gifted students. The study was further implemented to identify the gifted's attitudes toward reading and their reading habits. The data were gathered from the 69 state-assisted gifted programs in Missouri by means of a survey developed fourth, …
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The Perceptions of Directors of Gifted Education Regarding Division Factors that Contribute to Proportionate or Nearly Proportionate African American Representation in Gifted Education
… whose percentage African American students in gifted education were proportionate or nearly proportionate to their representation in the general student body in order to determine if there were any commonalities in their selection criteria. The conceptual framework suggests the type of …
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A Multi-Case Study of the School Experiences of Rural High School Gifted English Language Learners in One Midwest State
… 2013), but continues to be underrepresented in gifted education (Peters & Engerrand, 2016; Siegle et al., 2016). The flawed policies and procedures that prevent ELLs from being identified for gifted programming have been widely documented (Card & Giuliano, 2015; Ford, Grantham, & Whiting, 2008; …
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A Study of the Programs and Services for Intellectually Gifted Students in Northeast Tennessee Public School Systems.
… education directors, and the state director of gifted education to determine what gifted programs and or strategies are currently being offered in the selected schools and to explore emerging strategies in the education of intellectually gifted students in the Bristol Tennessee School System, …
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A Mixed Methods Study on Evaluations of Virginia's STEM-Focused Governor's Schools
… engineering, and math-related professions. Gifted students are a natural resource of future innovators for these fields; however gifted programs are largely overlooked for program support. Since 1973, the Virginia Department of Education has sponsored a unique model of regional magnet …
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Attitudes of American and Korean Early Childhood Educators Regarding Programs for Gifted/Talented Young Children.
… American early childhood educators concerning gifted children and programs aimed specifically at meeting their needs. The study examined general attitudes towards giftedness and gifted education programs and factors that might affect those attitudes. The study also examined desirable …
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