Recently added articles from Roeper Review:
How personality and gender may relate to individual attitudes toward caring for and about others.(CARING AND GLOBAL ISSUES)(Survey)
Oct 01, 2009; ... When we first tackled the issue of global caring--empathy, altruism, and moral development--among gifted children, we wished to investigate whether there are identifiable innate differences beyond high intelligence among people who do or do not experience empathy and feelings of altruism ...
It' s all a matter of perspective: student perceptions on the impact of being labeled gifted and talented.(LABELING AND IDENTITY DYNAMICS)(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Significant research exists to document the changed perception that occurs in teachers, family members, and peers when children are identified as gifted. The influence of these changes on gifted students is less understood. What is the attitude of gifted adolescents toward being identified ...
Gifted Black males: understanding and decreasing barriers to achievement and identity.(FINDING HIGH ABILITY AMONG THE UNDERSERVED)(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... National reports overwhelmingly reinforce the well-known and unfortunate reality that Black males face incredible barriers as they strive to achieve in school and social settings. One of the most potent and pervasive barriers is that of social injustices that effectively undermine their ...
From the editor's desk.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Welcome to volume 31, issue 4 of the Roeper Review. In this issue our authors address some important dimensions of giftedness and talent development including perfectionism, personality, and gender and their interactions with ethics, identity dynamics, their relevance to understanding and ...
Gifted high-school students' perspectives on the development of perfectionism.(PROBING PERFECTIONISM)(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Research examining perfectionism in gifted students has explored typologies of perfectionism (Dixon, Lapsley, & Hanchon, 2004; Parker, 1997; Vandiver & Won'ell, 2002) as well as the extent to which this trait is more or less prevalent in gifted students compared with the general population ...