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Parental Involvement And Its Impact On Student Academic Achievement, Tia Cook
Parental Involvement And Its Impact On Student Academic Achievement, Tia Cook
Journal of Graduate Education Research
The purpose of this non-experimental study was to determine if parental involvement levels have an effect on the gifted and talented (GT) status of fourth grade students. An additional purpose of the study was to determine if there was a difference between the academic performance of GT and non-GT students. The participants were a convenience sample of 50 parents or guardians of fourth grade students at a public middle school in the southeastern United States. The participants completed a researcher-made survey to determine the level of parental involvement in the fourth grade student’s academics. An analysis of the results indicated …
Australian Gifted And Talented Education: An Analysis Of Government Policies, Jennifer L. Jolly, Jennifer H. Robins
Australian Gifted And Talented Education: An Analysis Of Government Policies, Jennifer L. Jolly, Jennifer H. Robins
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Education policy signals the level of support or importance for high-performing or gifted and talented students to school leaders, educators, parents, and other stakeholders. These policies communicate the value or goals of departments of education. Given the importance of education policy, there remains a void in the analysis of gifted and talented education policy, which accounts for less than 1% of the empirical literature. We sought to understand how publicly available individual state and territory departments of education’s gifted and talented education policies and guidance documents coalesce with the NAGC (2019) Pre-K–Grade 12 Gifted Education Programming Standards. Although not developed …