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Download full textFoust, Regan Clark; Hertberg-Davis, Holly; Callahan, Carolyn M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2009
Using qualitative methods, the researchers explored student perceptions of the social and emotional advantages and disadvantages of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) program participation, differences between the AP and IB programs in those perceptions, and whether or not students report experiencing a "forced-choice…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Social Life, Advanced Placement, Student Attitudes
Hertberg-Davis, Holly; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Kyburg, Robin M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2006
Although limited research exists on the appropriateness of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Programs for gifted secondary learners, these courses serve as the primary methods of meeting the needs of gifted students in most high schools. This qualitative study employed a grounded theory approach to investigate how…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Honors Curriculum, High Schools, Advanced Placement
Brighton, Catherine M.; Hertberg, Holly L.; Moon, Tonya R.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Callahan, Carolyn M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2005
This study was an investigation of staff development programs designed to provide teachers with strategies through which all learners, including gifted, minority, and limited-English proficient students, can be appropriately served in a middle school environment sensitive to diverse learner academic needs. Participants in the study were assigned…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Performance Based Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Responsibility
Callahan, Carolyn M.; Sowa, Claudia J.; May, Kathleen M.; Tomchin, Ellen Menaker; Plucker, Jonathan A.; Cunningham, Caroline M.; Taylor, Wesley – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2004
This research monograph on the social and emotional development of gifted students' is divided into four parts. Part 1 of the report focuses on analysis of the literature. Parts 2-4 present results of seven qualitative and quantitative studies of adolescent development. In Part 2, Studies 1 and 2 expand Lazarus and Folkman's cognitive appraisal…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Academically Gifted, Females, Construct Validity
Callahan, Carolyn M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2003
The Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Programs have become increasingly prominent service options for gifted and talented secondary students, and are often the primary option in many school systems. This review presents the general historical background, overriding philosophies, procedures, perceived advantages and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Secondary School Students, Academically Gifted, Talent
Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M.; Hertberg, Holly L.; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Esperat, Andrea M.; Miller, Erin M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2003
In response to the numerous school reform initiatives being implemented, Sternberg proposed a theory of contextual modifiability stating that successful change in a school requires that the school be modifiable. Sternberg developed the School Characteristics Inventory (SCI), a 116-item Likert scale questionnaire, to assess schools'…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Measurement, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Moon, Tonya R.; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Miller, Erin M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2002
Middle school teachers' reported classroom practices, middle school students' perceptions of classroom practice, and the alignment of reported practices and perceptions with the middle school movement's orientation towards student achievement form the foci of this study. As part of a larger study looking at two different interventions for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Educational Practices
