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Focusing On The Future: Experience From A Career-Related Program For High-Ability Students And Their Parents, Mihyeon Kim
Focusing On The Future: Experience From A Career-Related Program For High-Ability Students And Their Parents, Mihyeon Kim
School of Education Articles
Career development serves as a lifelong process requiring constant personal development of skills and knowledge. This article introduces a career development program, Focusing on the Future, designed for high-ability middle and high school students and their parents, and examines responses to open-ended questions related to the perceived benefits and effects of the program. Focusing on the Future is an annual career-related conference held by the Center for Gifted Education at the William & Mary - School of Education. The program was designed to help gifted students and their parents engage in career planning and develop specific career plans. This study …
Gifted Education As A Vehicle For Enhancing Social Equality, Jennifer Riedl Cross
Gifted Education As A Vehicle For Enhancing Social Equality, Jennifer Riedl Cross
School of Education Articles
Considering the benefits that accrue in countries having low levels of social inequality and the harm that accompanies wide disparities in income, it is important to examine any practices or traditions that contribute to inequality. Under some circumstances, gifted education does confer advantages that are not available to all students, particularly when its identification procedures fail to recognize potential in students not in the dominant group or when services improve the educational opportunities only for those who are identified even though all students could benefit. The elimination of age grading, a practice that inhibits the development of potential for many …
Expectancy-Value Classes As Predictors Of Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem) Occupational Choice: Differences Related To Ability, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, And Socioeconomic Status, Lori Andersen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Student And Teacher Attitudes Toward Giftedness In A Two Laboratory School Environment: A Case For Conducting A Needs Assessment, Jennifer Riedl Cross
Student And Teacher Attitudes Toward Giftedness In A Two Laboratory School Environment: A Case For Conducting A Needs Assessment, Jennifer Riedl Cross
Arts & Sciences Articles
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