Journal of Secondary Gifted Education articles from March 2005

Journal of Secondary Gifted Education archives from March 2005

From the editor.(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... "The investigation of truth is in one way hard and in another way easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth entirely, while on the other hand no one fails entirely, but everyone says something...

Self-perceived creativity, family hardiness, and emotional intelligence of Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong.
March 22, 2005... This study assessed the self-perceptions of 212 gifted students regarding their creativity, family hardiness, and emotional intelligence. There were in general no gender and age group differences on these self-perceptions, with the exception...

Caught by our dangling paradigms: how our metaphysical assumptions influence gifted education.
March 22, 2005... Notions of intelligence and giftedness should keep pace with current knowledge of quantum physics and what is known about the nature of reality. There are three perspectives as to the nature of reality. Materialistic monism views the universe...

A study of academically talented students' participation in extracurricular activities.
March 22, 2005... In this study, we surveyed the participation rates of academically talented students across 9 areas: dance, solo instrument, choral music, band, athletics, student government, academic clubs, ethnic/cultural clubs, and an "other activities"...

The relationship between thinking styles and scientific giftedness in Korea.
March 22, 2005... This study investigated the thinking styles of Korean gifted students in Korea and examined whether thinking styles based on the theory of mental self-government could predict scientific giftedness based on Korean people's implicit concepts....

Korean science teachers' understanding of creativity in gifted education.
March 22, 2005... With the passing of Korea's Gifted Education Act, creativity has come to the forefront in considering the future of Korea's economic prosperity in the global economy (Korean Educational Development Institute, 2003). The purpose of this study...

I live in my own bubble: the values of talented adolescents.
March 22, 2005... Values are commonly thought to be important in the construction of personal and group morality, in personality, and as a basis for living life. The Rokeach Values Survey (RVS) was administered to gifted and talented adolescents in 1999, 2000,...

Development of authentic assessments for the middle school classroom.
March 22, 2005... This article discusses the rationale for, and explicates the process used in, developing differentiated authentic assessments for middle school classrooms (many of which contain gifted students) that are aligned with state academic standards....