Recently added articles from The Journal of Secondary Gifted Education:
The First Word: A Letter From the Co-Editors
Jul 01, 2007; ... This issue of the Journal of Advanced Academics marks the completion of our first volume. We have endeavored to publish interesting and relevant research for our readers. As we reflected on this volume, we asked ourselves a single question, "What do the readers o/JAA know now that they did not ...
How Do High-Achieving Students Approach Web-Based, Copy and Paste Note Taking? Selective Pasting and Related Learning Outcomes
Jul 01, 2007; ... summary Previous research has indicated that most students copy and paste notes from Internet sources in a mindless way; they typically paste large sections of text into their notes and then later can recall little of what they have stored. However, supplying students with a note-taking ...
Self-Regulation of Learning and Academic Delay of Gratification: Gender and Ethnic Differences Among College Students
Jul 01, 2007; ... summary Self-regulated learners engage in self-generated thoughts, actions, and feelings while pursuing academic goals. The most successful learners use appropriate learning strategies and maintain high levels of motivation. Few studies on the self-regulation of learning have examined ...
Transporting Pedagogy: Implementing the Project Approach in Two First-Grade Classrooms
Jul 01, 2007; ... summary This study explores how a project-based approach, based on gifted education pedagogy, was implemented in a public school program where the majority of students were from low-income families. The 2 first-grade teachers in this study were able to change their teaching practices to ...
A Collective Pursuit of Learning the Possibility to Be: The CAMP Experience Assisting Situationally Marginalized Mexican American Students to a Successful Student Identity
Jul 01, 2007; ... summary Many students of Mexican descent must learn how to be successful students. This study describes 5 students of Mexican descent from situationally marginalized lives who were a part of a support and retention scholarship program (College Assistance Migrant Program-CAMP). These case ...
The Last Word: An Interview With Frank Pajares: God, the Devil, William James, the Little Prince, and Self-Efficacy
Jul 01, 2007; ... Initial Interest in Psychology and Education JAA: What motivated you to pursue a career in psychology and education? Pajares: I don't really know how rny initial interest in psychology came about. I went to college intending to major in political science, but at some point ...
Project M^sup 3^: Mentoring Mathematical Minds-A Research-Based Curriculum for Talented Elementary Students
Jul 01, 2007; ... summary To date, there has been very little research-based mathematics curriculum for talented elementary students. Yet the gifted education and mathematics literature suggest support for curriculum that is both enriched and accelerated with a focus on developing conceptual understanding ...
The First Word: A Letter From the Co-Editors
Apr 01, 2007; ... Welcome to the third issue of JAA. In this issue, we unveil the members of our editorial review board. We are indebted to them for their feedback and advice on the 100 manuscripts that we have processed during the past year. We continue to strive to produce a quality journal that documents ...
I've Completely Changed: The Transforming Impact of the Matthew Shepard Scholarship
Apr 01, 2007; ... summary This article describes the impact of receiving the Matthew Shepard Scholarship (a 4-year, full scholarship) on 8 students who were openly gay or lesbian in high school. Previous literature, while imi ted, paints a decidedly bleak picture of the prospects for gay and lesbian ...
Differences Between General and Talented Students' Perceptions of Their Career and Technical Education Experiences Compared to Their Traditional High School Experiences
Apr 01, 2007; ... summary Career and technical education represents an important and understudied educational option for high school students. This qualitative study utilized data from one exemplary career and technical education (CTE) center to address the question of how talented and general education ...
Coming to Terms With Classroom Assessment
Apr 01, 2007; ... summary As the field of education moves forward in the area of assessment, researchers have yet to come to a conclusion about definitions of commonly used terms. Without a consensus on the use of fundamental terms, it is difficult to engage in meaningful discourse within the field of ...
Effects of Tiered Instruction on Academic Performance in a Secondary Science Course
Apr 01, 2007; ... summary Tiered instruction is grouping students for instruction based on their prior background knowledge in a given subject area. In this study, students were either in a control secondary science classroom or a classroom in which instruction was tiered. The tiered instruction was ...
A Closer Look at College Students: Self-Efficacy and Goal Orientation
Apr 01, 2007; ... summary Given that student retention is now one of the leading challenges faced by colleges and universities, research seeking to understand students' reasons for attrition is of critical importance. Two factors influence students' underachievement and subsequent dropping-out of college: ...
The Last Word: An Interview With Peggy Hines, Director of The Education Trust's National Center for Transforming School Counseling
Apr 01, 2007; ... JAA: What is your role as the director of the Education Trust's National Center for Transforming School Counseling (TSC)? Hines: It is an ever-evolving role. In this position, I hope to serve as a conduit between universities, state departments of education, and practitioners in sharing ...
The First Word: A Letter From the Co-Editors
Jan 01, 2007; ... Welcome to the second issue of the Journal of Advanced Academics. This issue contains two articles that consider the topic of increasing access to advanced-level courses. The first article, by Robin Kyburg, Holly Hertberg-Davis, and Carolyn Callahan, is a qualitative study of how the needs of ...
Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs: Optimal Learning Environments for Talented Minorities?
Jan 01, 2007; ... summary The racial, ethnic, linguistic, and economic diversity within urban areas necessitates the creation of scholastic environments that are responsive to the varying academic and social needs of the student population. This qualitative study investigates ways in which teacher and ...
Poetic Expressions: Students of Color Express Resiliency Through Metaphors and Similes
Jan 01, 2007; ... summary The after-school City School Outreach youth program captured the attention of high school male students by offering them a physically and psychologically safe environment to talk about issues they faced. The students of color who attended the program used various forms of ...
Middle-Level Reform: The Introduction of Advanced English and Science Courses
Jan 01, 2007; ... summary Seven middle-level schools in a large suburban district created an open enrollment system for advanced English and science courses. The advanced courses provided students with an opportunity to learn through the use of primary sources, high-level literature, and a variety of ...
Increasing Student Mathematics Self-Efficacy Through Teacher Training
Jan 01, 2007; ... summary Teachers can modify their instructional strategies with minimal training and effort, and this can result in increases in their students' self-efficacy. Self-efficacy judgments are based on four sources of information: an individual's own past performance, vicarious experiences of ...
The Last Word: An Interview With Arthur L. Costa
Jan 01, 2007; ... JAA: What are, in your mind, the characteristics of thinking and why do you believe that thinking is incredibly important? Costa: There are several levels of thinking; one is being skillful in doing thinking. When confronted with a problem or a decision to make, people need to know how ...