Ten-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up of Ability-Matched Accelerated and Unaccelerated Gifted Students.

Swiatek, Mary Ann; Benbow, Camilla Persson

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ERIC Number: EJ442343

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Publication Date: 1991

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Ten-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up of Ability-Matched Accelerated and Unaccelerated Gifted Students.

Swiatek, Mary Ann; Benbow, Camilla Persson

Journal of Educational Psychology, v83 n4 p528-38 Dec 1991

Identified by a study of mathematically precocious youth, 107 academically accelerated gifted students were compared with 107 nonacademically accelerated gifted students. At age 23-25 years, the 2 subject groups exhibited few significant differences, and no evidence of harmful effects of academic acceleration were found. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Advanced Students, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies, Higher Education, Mail Surveys, Mathematics Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Sex Differences, Student Development, Young Adults

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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