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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"gifted education"”.
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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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Perspectives on Equity in Gifted Education
<p>Increasing pressures of accountability 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 …
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Recommendations For Gifted Education in Rural Missouri
… for the Missouri State Department of Education and for local school districts concerning ways to provide educational opportunities for gifted students. A review of types of programs is included, along with evaluations of strengths and weaknesses of each prospective program option. The …
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Honoring Indigenous Worldview: Cultural (Un)Responsiveness in Gifted Education
<p>Many working understandings of giftedness exist within dominating Western frameworks, gatekeeping gifted education from students who do not “fit” inside such frameworks (Owens et al., 2018; Rinn et al., 2020; Sternberg et al., 2021). As a result, K- 12 Native American, Alaska Native, and Native …
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Exploring equitable representation of English learners in gifted education.
Despite growing national commitments to educational equity, English Learners (ELs) remain significantly underrepresented in gifted and advanced academic programs across the United States. This two-part dissertation explores the systemic and perceptual factors contributing to this persistent …
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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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Narrative Exploration of Teacher Experiences in Culturally Responsive Gifted Education
… the underrepresentation of diverse students in gifted education programs. This research explores the experiential stories of gifted education professionals who work in urban classrooms with culturally diverse students in two neighboring Midwestern states. The complex experiences of urban gifted …
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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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Analyzing families' hopes and expectations for gifted education programs.
… 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 hoping for when they select …
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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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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… underrepresentation African American children in gifted education programs. The differences in oral narration among 50 students in general and gifted education programs, grades two through five, were investigated. Students produced audiotaped oral narratives based on a wordless book, Frog, Where …
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Bright Eyes, Brown Skin: Perceptions of Gifted Education and the Black Male Child
… study examined the perceptions of nineteen gifted Black males about their participation in gifted education at five different school sites within one urban school district. Specifically, the researcher investigated how gifted Black males perceived their placement in gifted education, family …
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A Global Conceptualization of Giftedness: A Ciomparison of US and Indian Gifted Education Programs
… the US and India in their approaches toward gifted education programs. Beginning with a look at the evolution of gifted education in America and the subsequent programs created under the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program, American efforts to promote gifted education …
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The Underrepresentation of English Learners in Mississippi's Intellectually Gifted Education Program: a Framework for Change
… learners for participation in an intellectually gifted education program. The purpose of this study was to determine if particular gifted education programming, or programming criteria, impacts this student population's identification for participation in Mississippi's intellectually gifted …
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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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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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