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Examining The Relationship Between Gifted Behavior Rating Scores And Student Academic Performance, Lori M. Cleveland
Examining The Relationship Between Gifted Behavior Rating Scores And Student Academic Performance, Lori M. Cleveland
CUP Ed.D. Dissertations
Current trends in gifted education research suggest the importance of identifying, developing, and nurturing the talent and potential of gifted learners in addition to recognizing high ability through intelligence testing. However, despite decades of work to decrease the achievement gaps, increasing excellence gaps, the disparity between the highest levels of student achievement from White, affluent backgrounds and the top-performing students from minority or low income backgrounds, remains a problem (Plucker & Callahan, 2014). This quantitative research study examines how a component of the identification process, the gifted behavior rating scale, can be used to assess student potential and increase representation …