Between 2006 and 2008 the Ministry of Education funded the evaluation of three Talent Development Initiatives for gifted and talented students. The methodology employed was one of participatory action research, a process of evaluation that enables learning by doing, as researchers and practitioners work alongside one another. Through the process of evaluating the three programmes, the researche...

An analysis of contemporary motivation theories reveals implications for gifted and talented students. The expectancy-value framework, intrinsic-extrinsic motivation theories, goal orientations, self-efficacy and other self-perceptions, and attribution theory are described and discussed with respect to implications for the psychology and education of gifted and talented students. Illustrative e...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between test anxiety with mental health and implicit-explicit self esteem. the comparison of these constructs between talented and normal schools students was assessed as well.  112 talented school male students and 96 normal school male students from khorasan razavi were selected by convenience sampling and completed the package of inst...

one of the main concerns of teachers in modern learner-centered approaches is whether published teaching materials can meet the needs of students at a particular leaning situation or the teachers ought to prepare their own materials. this dilemma gets worse when the teaching situation includes a textbook prescribed by an authority such as the ministry of education. in such cases, the teacher ha...

Introduction. What is the conception of talented students about university and academic and social life? Does this conception change before and after entering the university? How these changes occur and in which direction? Are these changes important? Do the talented students have any solution for academic life problems? Method. In a qualitative study 20 medical talented students were selected...

introduction. iranian talented university students who take term averages below 17 for at least twice can’t use facilities of educational legislation for gifted and talented students in universities. this study deals with validity of this rule. methods. renzullis three ring conception of giftedness was selected as gifted definition. obtaining grade point averages equal or more than 15 was regar...

The main research questions that we answer in this article are: What are characteristics of honours students and how do they value teachers and courses? Does our theory-based learning context, which is supportive of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, actually correspond to the preferences of our honours students? Talent, selectiveness, and differentiation are quickly becoming buzzwords in h...