Behavioral Characteristics Prototypes of Academically Talented Students: Implications for Educational Interventions

Effectiveness of educational and behavioral asthma interventions.

In this article we discuss studies of individualized and community-based interventions for control of asthma in children. We posit that successful programs share 8 common characteristics: (1) recognition of the multiple factors affecting childhood asthma; (2) careful assessment of participants' risk factors and needs; (3) tailoring of program elements to address participants' risk factors and n...

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The Relationship of Time Perspective to Age, Gender, and Academic Achievement Among Academically Talented Adolescents

time perspective is a useful psychological construct associated with educational outcomes (Phalet, andriessen, & lens, 2004) and may prove fruitful for research focusing on academically talented adolescents. thus, the relationship of time perspective to age, gender, and academic achievement was examined among 722 academically talented middle and high school students. time perspective was measur...

The Reliability and Validity of Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory Scores in Academically Talented Adolescents

In this study, the authors examined the reliability, structural validity, and concurrent validity of Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) scores in a group of 815 academically talented adolescents. Reliability estimates of the purported factors’ scores were in the low to moderate range. Exploratory factor analysis supported a five-factor structure similar to the one proposed by Zimbardo a...

Students' Acceptance of Tablet PCs and Implications for Educational Institutions

This research develops and empirically tests a factor model for understanding college students’ acceptance of Tablet PC (TPC) as a means to forecast, explain, and improve their usage pattern in education. The analysis involved more than 230 students from a regional Midwestern institution. Overall, our model exhibited a good fit with the data and provided satisfactory explanatory power for stude...