TECHNO-school for Technologically Talented Underachieving Students

Postural control in underachieving students.

UNLABELLED Postural balance is a sensory-motor function resulting from a learning process. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the postural control of underachieving students through static posturography together with virtual reality stimulation. METHODS This was a controlled cross-sectional study of a group of 51 underachieving students and a control group of 60 students with good school performance, wi...

Gifted and talented students

Talented Students and Resilient At-Risk Students: Similarities and Differences

This study compared academically talented students (n = 23) who were not at risk for school failure and resilient at-risk students (n = 27) on risk factors and protective/promotive factors. Participants’ risk status was determined by student assignment. The academically talented students were attending a summer program at a major research university and the at-risk students were graduates of a ...

When Talent is Not Enough: Why Technologically Talented Women are Not Studying Technology

The position of technology education in Finland is quite different from that in most other European countries, even for Finland’s Nordic neighbors. Technology education is incorporated within the scopes of other subjects, such as physics, chemistry, biology, home economics, and craft education. Craft education is, in practice, further divided into technical work and textile work. Although the n...

‘Good research’ conducted by talented high school students: The case of SciTech

Introduction In this paper, we present SciTech, the summer international research program for talented high school students, organized in the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. Our major thesis is that while taking part in scientific projects under supervision by the Technion research stuff, the high school participants in SciTech are given the opportunity to work as researchers, and not ...