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Attitudes Of Gifted Students, Their Parents, And School Staff, Joan Putnam
Attitudes Of Gifted Students, Their Parents, And School Staff, Joan Putnam
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
One purpose of this paper was to investigate differences between gifted students' attitudes toward school according to assignment to self-contained or resource gifted classes. The other purpose was to investigate differences in knowledge of gifted and positive attitudes of the students' parents and school staff. The students' attitudes were measured using Hogan's Survey of School attitudes with local items added. No significant differences were found in attitudes toward reading/language arts, science, mathematics or social studies. There were minor differences in the students' attitudes toward their gifted program and being gifted. The parents' and staffs' attitudes were measured using a researcher …