Teachers’ conceptions of giftedness influence which students they identify as gifted and how they behave towards these students. Research findings are mixed, showing an overall positive, negative, or ambivalent view that considers gifted students as intellectually strong, but socio-emotionally inferior. Such misconceptions might lead teachers to focus on their students’ perceived socio-emotiona...

this study aims to compare normal and gifted students in terms of perfectionism, emotional intelligence and mental health factors. descriptive causal-comparative research method was utilized. the sample consisted of 100 female high school students (50 normal students and 50 gifted students). research tools were the ghq, bar-on, hill and raven questionnaires. multivariate analysis of variance (m...

This is one of the most commonly used methods of identification, and its effectiveness varies enormously. Identification of gifted and talented students improves when teachers are informed of the nature and purpose of the programme for gifted and talented students. Teachers are likely to support their judgments with the help of tools, such as checklists, teacher observation scales, and student ...

The need for a book?or better still, books?on the needs of gifted children is beyond doubt. Of the 33 references given by the authors on this topic, only three are by British writers. It is therefore all the more regrettable that this book cannot be welcomed unreservedly. The preface calls it entertaining and pleasant, and that it certainly is. So are the 15 photographs it contains but, except ...

The research aimed to study the effectiveness of using an E-training package to develop Webquest designing skills for teachers of gifted students. The main research question was how well gifted students’ teachers acquire the Webquest’s designing skills after studying the proposed E-training package? The research follows a quasiexperimental design for one group. The sample consists of 23 teacher...

Previously, fine motor skills have been of little or no interest to giftedness research. New lines of thought have been advanced that imply that fine motor skills can be of significance in the identification of gifted persons as well as gifted underachievers. This would also have consequences for the diagnostic process underlying identification. An empirical investigation with 788 fourth-grade ...

The study deals with the question whether gifted students differ from regular students when performing a creative task. A total of 140 students from a rural and an urban secondary school for gifted students in Germany took part in the investigation. The 58 students from gifted classes were similar with respect to age and gender distribution to the 82 students from regular classes. Students were...

This literature review synthesizes the available literature that suggests that the underachievement of gifted students may be tied to their inherent and unrecognized creativity. Apparently, many gifted students are underachievers and up to 30% of high school dropouts may be highly gifted. Beginning with the belief that these gifted underachievers may be highly creative, this article first revie...

The existence of gifted students who have learning difficulties has been well documented (Brody & Mills, 1997; Dix & Schafer, 1996; Ellston, 1993 ; Fetzer, 2000; Hishinuma & Tadaki, 1996; Rivera, Murdock, & Sexton, 1995). These students display a learning capacity that is characteristic of students who are gifted, in parallel with a specific learning disability in areas of academic performance ...