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A Curriculum Unit to Provide Enrichment Activities for Talented Students in Biology
… Units can be successful in encouraging the talented students to excel in their interests and capabilities. The intent of this paper is to show how enrichment activities and centers can be easily implemented in the biology curriculum by the use of Mastery Learning Units. In so doing, only one …
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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of WRAML Scores in a Group of Academically Talented Students
… subtests from the DAT. Sixty-four academically talented adolescents completed the WRAML and the mechanical reasoning and spatial relations subtests from the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT). The confirmatory factor analysis found the data obtained to not be a good fit for the factor structure of …
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Effects of Professional Development on Using Differentiated Instruction with Gifted and Talented Students in the Library Media Center
… out to every student, especially to gifted and talented students who can benefit from having more advocates within their learning communities. Collaborating with other education professionals is beneficial to all students and many library media specialists already make this a normal part of …
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Career Values and Perceptions of Agricultural Careers of Gifted and Talented Students in the Virginia Governor's School for Agriculture
… Agriculture career education of gifted and talented students, therefore, must begin with an assessment of the values of the students, their assumptions regarding fields within the agriculture industry, and factors that influence their career decisions. This descriptive study summarized …
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Gender Differences in Career Aspirations of Academically Talented Students: A Five Year Longitudinal Study of High School Valedictorians and Salutatorians
… questionnaires. The academically talented students continued to achieve highly in college academics. In college, women, but not men, lowered their self-estimates of their intelligence and began modifying their career plans to accommodate expected future marriage and parenting …
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A Multiple Case Study Analysis of Middle Grades Social Studies Teachers' Instructional Use of Digital Technology with Academically Talented Students at Three High-Performing Middle Schools
Appropriate education for academically talented students incorporates the use of complex thinking skills, and encourages the development of interpersonal and leadership skills. One potential tool to achieve these goals is the use of instructional technology. Siegle (2004a, 2005) suggests that it is …
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Personality differences between talented high school achievers and underachievers
… the part of educators to help the academically talented student develop his scholastic ability to its maximum level. Past experience has shown that there is a large number of talented students who are not achieving scholastically in terms of their apparent intellectual potentials. Research on …
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A Study of the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test Performance of South Carolina's Gifted and Talented Learners in Grades Three Through Five
… reported in 2006 that the identified gifted and talented students were not performing as well in the English Language Arts (ELA) content area as they were in the other three tested content areas on the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT).</p> <p>The South Carolina State Department of …
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Using the Monte Carlo Method to Teach Probabilistic Problem Solving to Ninth Grade General Mathematics Students
… courses to be restricted to a few mathematically talented students at the upper levels of secondary education.
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Alla har rätt att utvecklas som matematiskt begåvad
… differences, the same teaching does not suit all students. The purpose of this qualitative research was to find out how teachers experience and differentiate mathematics teaching for the mathematically talented students in first grade. The intention was, therefore, to find out why the teachers …
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Who Is She? A Case Study of A Teacher of Gifted Learners
… second year of teaching English language arts to students who are identified as academically gifted and talented. The case study took place at Beech Hill Elementary School (pseudonym), one of eleven elementary schools in a school district located in a suburban community in the southeastern United …
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Case Study: Exploring Inservice Teachers’ Perceptions and Experiences of the Effectiveness of Gifted Preparation and Training Programs in Saudi Arabia
<p>In Saudi Arabia, the teaching of gifted and talented students is relatively new, and research that describes the quality and effectiveness of teachers' gifted preparation programs and the training sessions they receive remain rather limited and inconsistent. Purpose: This dissertation focuses on …
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ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION IN RELATION TO GENDER AMONG GIFTED AND TALENTED COLLEGE STUDENTS
… academic procrastination among gifted and talented college students. The study consisted of 35 honor college undergraduate students enrolled in a large urban university in Texas. A questionnaire packet was used for collecting data. It included a demographic data form and the Procrastination …
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An investigation of differences in selected curriculum and student characteristics in regular and gifted English classes in Area I Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax County, Virginia
… education that is offered to gifted and talented students. Fairfax County Public Schools, in Virginia, has made a commitment to providing differentiated education to gifted and talented students, as mandated by the Virginia Legislature in the Virginia Standards of Quality. This study …
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Perceptions of the Influence of the Virginia Governor's School for Agriculture on VGSA Alumni
… is a summer enrichment program for gifted and talented students from throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. The program is sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education, and it takes place at Virginia Tech during the month of July each year. The program is housed in the Department of …
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A Change Plan for Underachieving Gifted Children
<p>There exists a population of gifted and talented students for whom the educational system does not service. These children are often either from poverty or minority backgrounds, or sometimes so profoundly smart that schools simply do not know what to do with them or where they fit in. This …
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