Journal of Secondary Gifted Education articles from September 2005

Journal of Secondary Gifted Education archives from September 2005

From the editor.(Editorial)
September 22, 2005... Although elementary-level teachers, especially those in early childhood, are used to hearing that they must teach the "whole child," this idea is newer in secondary education. Teachers who take pride in their subject expertise find themselves...

Moral judgment developmental differences between gifted youth and college students.
September 22, 2005... In order to better understand contributing factors of moral judgment development, gifted youth and college students were compared. Moral judgment development, ACT scores, attributional complexity, and descriptors of personality were assessed...

Are giftedness and creativity synonyms in mathematics?
September 22, 2005... At the K-12 level one assumes that mathematically gifted students identified by out-of-level testing are also creative in their work. In professional mathematics, "creative" mathematicians constitute a very small subset within the field. At...

Model-Eliciting Activities as a tool to develop and identify creatively gifted mathematicians.
September 22, 2005... This article addresses the use of Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) as a (curricular) tool to develop mathematical creativity and identify students who are creatively gifted in mathematics. The thesis of this article is that by using MEAs,...

Looking outward: exploring the intersections of sociocultural theory and gifted education.
September 22, 2005... As scholars in the field of gifted education continue to explore ways of improving the educational services provided to gifted and talented students, attention must be paid to the infinite amount of potential that an interdisciplinary theory...