Journal of Secondary Gifted Education articles from January 2006

Journal of Secondary Gifted Education archives from January 2006

Special issue on new voices in gifted education.(From the Guest Editor)
January 1, 2006... On behalf of my coeditor, Michael S. Matthews, and myself, I would like to thank JSGE Editor Bonnie Cramond and her staff for inviting us to guest-edit this special issue on new voices in gifted education. The field is entering an important...

Effects of a summer program on the social self-concepts of gifted adolescents.
January 1, 2006... This study investigates the change in social self-concept among adolescents participating in a summer program for the gifted. Participants include 140 gifted students who had completed the 7th through 10th grade during the previous academic...

School functioning and psychological well-being of international baccalaureate and general education students: a preliminary examination.
January 1, 2006... The current study compared the school and psychological functioning of 122 gifted and high-achieving students to that of 176 general education students educated in the same school. Relative to their peers in general education, gifted and...

Support and sabotage: principals' influence on middle school teachers' responses to differentiation.
January 1, 2006... In order to respond to the growing academic diversity in classrooms, teachers must recognize that their students have different needs and commit to differentiating instruction accordingly; however, the relationship between teachers' willingness...

A descriptive analysis of referral sources for gifted identification screening by race and socioeconomic status.
January 1, 2006... A dataset containing demographic information, gifted nomination status, and gifted identification status for all elementary school students in the state of Georgia (N = 705,074) was examined. The results indicated that automatic and teacher...

Effective teaching strategies for gifted/learning-disabled students with spatial strengths.
January 1, 2006... This study sought to determine effective teaching strategies for use with high-ability students who have spatial strengths and sequential weaknesses. Gifted students with spatial strengths and weak verbal skills often struggle in the...