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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Gifted program"”.
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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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Depression, Self-Esteem and Perceived Peer Acceptance Reported By Children Enrolled in a Gifted Program
… and children enrolled in two public school programs for the gifted. The group of participants enrolled in a full-time gifted program was too small to be included in statistical analyses. Students in a part-time gifted program reported significantly less depression and higher self-esteem than …
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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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Exploring Teachers' Beliefs about the Underrepresentation of Minority Students in the Gifted Program in a Mid-Sized Suburban School District in Georgia
… number of minority students enrolled in the gifted program and the number of minority students enrolled in the gifted program in some school districts in Georgia is not representative of this diversity. The underrepresentation of minority students in the gifted program is a concern voiced in …
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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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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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Educators' Perceptions of Reasons for and Strategies to Correct the Underrepresentation of African Americans in Gifted Education Programs
… the underrepresentation of African Americans in gifted education programs. The mixed method paradigm included a combination of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The two instruments used were an eight-item interview questionnaire and a two page researcher-designed survey. The …
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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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Using DIBELS next reading fluency or Text Reading and Comprehension assessments to identify gifted students
… can accurately identify students into a gifted language arts program. The results of this study demonstrate that DIBELS and TRC neither could accurately place students into a gifted program that uses a sound, researched identification process. One DIBELS subtest, Letter Naming Fluency …
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Perceived effectiveness of alternative programming : a case study /
The topic of this research was alternative programming in secondary public education. The purpose of this research was to explore the perceived effectiveness of two public secondary programs that are aJternative to mainstream or "regular" education. Two case study sites were used to research …
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The Depth and Complexity Program Evaluation Tool: A New Method for Conducting Internal Evaluations of Gifted Education Programs
Few program evaluation models unique to gifted education currently exist. The Depth and Complexity Program Evaluation Tool (DC-PET) is a new method for conducting an evaluation of a gifted program that combines the Kaplan Depth and Complexity Model with tools and techniques from the fields of …
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Examining secondary talented and gifted and agricultural education experiences relative to college major and career choice
… to describe the role of secondary talented and gifted and agricultural education experiences in college major and related career choice. This descriptive study sought out how institutions may go about recruiting and training individuals based upon characteristic and involvement information, …
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A Study of Brain Dominance Among Gifted Students
… hemispheric brain dominance among intellectually gifted students. The study involved 184 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students from a gifted program. The Zenhausern Hemispheric Cognitive Style was administered to all students reported in the study. Scores were compared by use of the chi square …
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Using Social Writing Instruction as a Means of Building Community Among Diverse Gifted Students in a Transient, Pull-Out Program
… diverse students in a short term, transient gifted program. The study incorporated ethnographic research techniques combined with basic descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. The study focused on three research questions: How does writing in a social setting build community among …
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An American History Curriculum for Eighth Grade Gifted Students
… to meet the requirements of the Clay County gifted program. It provides a comprehensive American history curriculum, discovery through the Civil War, to promote mastery of the content area, increase involvement and interest of students in learning through the reduction of irrelevant and …
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An Analysis of Gifted Identification for Elementary-Aged Students in A High Performing School District: A Program Evaluation
<p>This program evaluation examines the initial identification processes for inclusion in the formalized gifted reading and language arts program offered in an elementary school district located just outside of a major city. Student performance in the school district is near the top in the nation. …
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Hands-on manipulative use in science instruction
… students, who participated in the Talented and Gifted Program. Subjects from the experimental group and the control group completed a science content pretest of thirteen open-ended cognition questions. Both groups completed assigned activities, and subjects completed a science content posttest …
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Affective Reactions and Psychosocial Functioning in the Course of Psycho-Educational Assessment
… and possible placement in the Talented and Gifted Program or Special Education. This study employed Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), t-tests, multiple regression analysis, and correlational analysis. Findings included initial evidence that children endorsed decreased anxiety after …
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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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Analyzing families' hopes and expectations for gifted education programs.
… energy, and resources into selecting the best program options for their gifted children. This is true for both in-school and informal opportunities. While the research literature offers a glimpse into their perceptions of gifted programming, there is little examination of what parents are …
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