Predictors of Performance of Disadvantaged Adolescents in a Gifted Program.

Skuy, Mervyn; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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Predictors of Performance of Disadvantaged Adolescents in a Gifted Program.

Skuy, Mervyn; And Others

Gifted Child Quarterly, v34 n3 p97-101 Sum 1990

The study with 99 13 to 18-year-old Black students in the Soweto (South Africa) Gifted Child Program indicated that 50-58 percent of the variance in performance was accounted for by 2 subtests (the Verbal Analogies Test and the Organiser) of the Learning Potential Assessment Device and the Similarities subtests of the Wechsler scales. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Gifted Disadvantaged, Secondary Education, Student Characteristics, Verbal Learning

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: South Africa

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