Article history: Received date: 23 September, 2016 Review date: 5 October 2016 Accepted date:20 November 2016 Printed on line: 5 January,2017 Purpose: The aim of the current research was investigating the rate of philosophical thought in gifted third grade high school students of Zahedan on the basis of Smith Theory. Materials and method: Research methodology was deceptive-correlationa...

Administered the Multiscore Depression Inventory and the Personal Orientation Inventory to 248 academically gifted adolescents drawn from across the state of South Carolina to participate in a select program. Low but significant correlations were noted among several of the scales. Factor analysis of the scales of both instruments resulted in five factors for females and six for males. In both s...

abstract background: gifted individuals have exclusive personality traits and need various experiences to achieve more information about themselves and their ability into developmental process from giftedness to talent. also, they can increase mental experiences and obtain greater self- actualization with recognition of the level of challenges, values and their personality traits. the aim of th...

Disruptive students are often perceived to be unmotivated, low in self-concept, and lacking in creative characteristics such as originality in thinking and imagination. A total of 99 students from 6th Grade classes of a primary school in Hong Kong completed a survey asking about their effort goal orientation in school motivation, academic self-concept, originality in thinking, and imagination. ...

Secondary analysis of archived data had an early beginning in the field of gifted education with the influential work of Lewis Terman and his Genetic Studies of Genius. In the present article, we briefly trace this history, focusing particularly on how these data have been analyzed in subsequent research. This is followed by a discussion of the benefits, challenges, and limitations of conductin...

Outstanding gifted programs reflect the special qualities of the people and schools involved, but have many characteristics in common. or the past fie yecars we havc experimented with a rici program for gifted and talented students that has been used successfully in several school locations and under a variety of conditions (Renzulli, 1982. Reis and Rcnzulli. 1982, Dclisle and Renzulli, 1981; D...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate My Class Activities (MCA), an instrument that can be used to evaluate gifted programs. A sample of MCA scores from 826 students in grades 3-8 from a Saturday enrichment program was used. We evaluated four different models using confirmatory factor analyses. Results indicated a revised version of MCA, including interest, challenge, choice, and enjoyment,...