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O'Grady-Jones, Mary; Grant, Michael M. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
The purpose of this research was to describe the impact of digital game building on fourth grade gifted and talented students' problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration skills. Increasingly, there has been a call to involve students in real-world experiences through projects that explore authentic issues using technology. Game design-based…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Computer Games, Educational Games
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Hulsey, Donna B.; Moten, Titus R.; Hebda, Maryann R.; Sulak, Tracey N.; Bagby, Janet H. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
Using the ECLS-K:2011, a nationally representative dataset, we compared measures of behavioral engagement among students with four different learning profiles: students identified with learning disabilities, students identified as gifted, students identified as both gifted and having a learning disability (twice-exceptional; 2e), and general…
Descriptors: Identification, Gifted Disabled, Students with Disabilities, Student Behavior
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McClurg, Virginia M.; Codalata, Bonnie M.; Bell, Sherry M.; McCallum, R. Steve – Gifted Child Today, 2022
The psychometric integrity of a curriculum-based measure to screen for academic giftedness (Monitoring Instructional Responsiveness: Reading [MIR:R]) was evaluated by examining its ceiling, item gradient, and predictive capacity using 460 fourth grade students. Eighty fourth graders (17.39%) scored one standard deviation above the MIR:R mean. Ten…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Screening Tests, Talent Identification, Academically Gifted
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Hunt, Lucy; Yoshida-Ehrmann, Erin – Gifted Child Today, 2016
Project Linking Learning ("Link") was created to target the needs of gifted students in urban school districts with historically underserved populations. Project Linking Learning implemented a linking curriculum between in-class instruction and an afterschool enrichment program for selected students in second through fifth grade.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, School Districts, Gifted
Morris, Ronald V. – Gifted Child Today, 2006
This article describes a group students in an elementary gifted class used discovery to learn about life in industrial New England. Taking multiple days to analyze this topic, students used artifacts (chairs), discussion, and primary sources to explore the politics of the 1830s. They examined the workings of Hitchcockville, CT, and a Massachusetts…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Gifted, Discovery Learning, Visual Aids
Gifted Child Today, 2004
It all started with a night of bowling in Austin, Texas, when fifth-grade student Amit had an evening of fun with his grandparents. When Amit returned to his home in Lubbock, TX, and tried to replicate his newfound recreation, his night of bowling fun ended after 10 minutes in an asthma attack. His second attempt at Lubbock bowling also brought a…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Smoking, Health Promotion, Public Health