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Title: A Descriptive Study of Elementary Mathematically Promising Student Interactions With Cognitively Demanding Math Tasks
Author: Lewis, Wendy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Gifted children--Education
Description: National mathematics achievement results show that elementary students in the United States are not increasing in cognitive ability or critical thinking skills (NAEP, 2020). For this increase, mathematically promising students require more opportu...

Title: Combatting Ceiling Effects: Modeling High-Ability Student Growth Using Multilevel Tobit Regression
Author: Hujar, Julia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Gifted children--Education, Statistics
Description: Pressures associated with accountability testing have resulted in a narrowing of both the curriculum and pedagogy that does not meet the needs of high ability learners. This study proposed that either a different measurement (an above-level comput...

Title: Effect of local norms on racial and ethnic representation in gifted education
Author: Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Peters, Scott J., Rambo-Hernandez, Karen, Plucker, Jonathan A.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education--Research, Gifted children--Education, Racism in schools
Description: Educators have sought to understand and address the disproportional representation of students from certain student subgroups in gifted education. Most gifted identification decisions are made with national comparisons where students must score ab...

Title: Examining the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs : a study using PRISMA methods
Author: Eident, Canaan, Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Gilson, Cindy M., Byker, Erik Jon
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gifted children--Education, Educational equalization
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the social and emotional consequences of the inequity of access to gifted programs in the United States’ school system. To complete this study, we used a modified version of the Preferred Reporting Items fo...

Title: Reflections on the registered report process for effect of local norms on racial and ethnic representation in gifted education
Author: Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Peters, Scott J., Rambo-Hernandez, Karen, Plucker, Jonathan A.
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education--Research, Gifted children--Education, Racism in schools
Description: Some education researchers may feel like registered reports (RRs) are a big change, but after our experience, it will be hard for any of us to go back to the old way of doing research. The benefits are too extensive to ignore. Collaborating with r...

Title: Social and Emotional Strategies: The Perspectives of High School Gifted Students and AIG Directors
Author: Alhibs, Mashael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Gifted children--Education
Description: Limited studies address high school gifted students' social and emotional needs (Knudsen, 2018; Kregel, 2015). Additionally, there is a lack of research regarding high school gifted students' and Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) directo...

Title: Teacher Practices, Beliefs, and Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics: A Phenomenological Case Study of Teachers Instructing Mathematically Gifted and Promising Students
Author: Weiss, Christine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Gifted children--Education, Teachers--Training of
Description: ABSTRACTCHRISTINE H. WEISS. Teacher Practices, Beliefs, and Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics: A Phenomenological Case Study of Teachers Instructing Mathematically Gifted and Promising Students. (Under the direction of DR. DREW POLLY)Student...

Title: The Underperformance of Gifted Elementary School Students
Author: Chinnis, Kimberly
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Gifted children--Education
Description: There is much concern regarding the underachievement of gifted students. Gifted students have the potential to make outstanding contributions to society. The present study analyzed the perceptions of teachers, principals, and one director of gifte...

Title: The Validity of the Achievement-Orientation Model for Gifted Middle School Students
Author: Ritchotte, Jennifer
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Gifted children--Education
Description: Gifted underachievement represents a frustrating loss of potential for society. Although attempts have been made to develop interventions to reverse gifted underachievement, the theoretical underpinnings of these interventions have yet to be empir...

Title: Why hasn’t the gifted label caught up with science?
Author: Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Jolly, Jennifer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gifted children--Education, Special education
Description: The development of both special education and gifted education as fields of study were closely tied to the origins of intelligence testing in the early 20th century. While special education’s terminology has become more nuanced and circumspect ove...