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50 Years of ERIC
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Teachers See What Ability Scores Cannot: Predicting Student Performance with Challenging Mathematics
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Foreman, Jennifer L.; Gubbins, E. Jean – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2015
Teacher nominations of students are commonly used in gifted and talented identification systems to supplement psychometric measures of reasoning ability. In this study, second grade teachers were requested to nominate approximately one fourth of their students as having high learning potential in the year prior to the students' participation…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Psychometrics, Elementary School Teachers
STEM High School Administrators', Teachers', and Students' Perceptions of Curricular and Instructional Strategies and Practices
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Bruce-Davis, Micah N.; Gubbins, E. Jean; Gilson, Cindy M.; Villanueva, Merzili; Foreman, Jennifer L.; Rubenstein, Lisa DaVia – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
The present qualitative study was conducted in response to federal initiatives aimed at increasing the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) schools in the United States; and to better understand STEM high school administrators', teachers', and students' perceptions of the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, STEM Education, Administrators, Secondary School Teachers
Laying the Base for the Future: One Cornerstone of the Javits Act
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Renzulli, Joseph S.; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Gubbins, E. Jean – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
The passage of the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act in 1988 was truly a watershed moment in the field of gifted education. The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) represented one part of the overall agenda of research and services supported by the Javits Act. How the Javits Act came to be and the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Academically Gifted, Educational History
Contributions to the Impact of the Javits Act by the National Research Center on the Gifted and the Talented
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Gubbins, E. Jean; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Renzulli, Joseph S. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
One component of the Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act was provision for research on a national scale. In response, The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) was created to design and implement a research portfolio. Based on emphasis in the Javits Act on underrepresented populations, on issues of…
Descriptors: Gifted, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Research and Development Centers