Giftedness - Science topic

Including but not limited to Indigenous folks, LGBTQ+ folks, and racialized folks.

Best regards. I ask because this topic interests me because of my age and my psychological profile. I have belonged to MENSA and to the Spanish association of gifted and talented (AEST). Several members of my family are gifted. I know that this is inheritable in an average percentage of 50% in children and 70% in adults (effect of genes in the long term I suppose). I also see that certain diseases recur, but I prefer to ask the experts.

Thank you very much

Daniel Patón

Ecology Unit. University of Extremadura, Spain

Hello everyone. Some of us are not experts in psychology but we are interested in the subject and we want to have some basic ideas to help our students. I have some doubts about the similarities and differences between some concepts. I am referring to Dabrowsky's over-excitabilities, Aron's highly sensitive persons, the concept of giftedness itself and the aftermath of post-traumatic stress. There are experts who confuse these terms, deny the validity of some of them, consider them synonymous, etc... I would like to have a coherent explanation as to whether they are related aspects or whether some encompass others. Thank you very much.

Hello everyone :)

I am trying to research the impact on corporate merchandise given to the employees (like t-shirts, hoodies, coffee cups, notebooks, etc. with the company logo) has any effect on the employees experience and cannot find any papers that have approached the subject.

Which honestly surprised me since it seems to be such a common practice that both big Companies (like Google) to small start ups engage in. So I am interested to see if it improves any key factor like motivation, satisfaction, retention, or performance, or if it is just a waste of resources that fills employees homes with objects they do not need.

Do you know of any research papers/studies or surveys that looks at this? Or do you otherwise know, if this topic has been studied at all? Or do you otherwise have any idea, where I might look to find some info on this?

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Given the measurement, lack of universally agreed upon definition and myths regarding giftedness and gifted education, a number of methodological challenges appear in researching this new field. I have been reviewing gifted education literatures recently but lots of arguments surround methodological issues in studying giftedness and identification of individuals who are gifted or talented. Any form of help(sharing recent articles, dissertations or t or direction ) is appreciated.

I am a graduate student at Arizona State University taking a course in research and evaluation in education. In our class, we are comparing and contrasting research and evaluation. After having read our text, (Mertens, 2020) Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology, the author discusses the differences and parallels between the two. I had previously considered the two as interchangeable terms, or at least going hand-in-hand, however now there are evident distinctions that I can identify. The two do have overlap, but to me, research seems to be more of a process of uncovering and collecting new information in order to determine the "why" of a problem, scenario, or phenomenon. Evaluation, on the other hand, presents to me as a thorough process through which already available information is compiled to identify the "how well" or worth/value of an existing program or practice.

I am curious as to others' opinions on this topic. Do research and evaluation overlap, or are they singular and distinct? How are they used together? Must they be?

We are also discussing four paradigms that frame research and evaluation. Mertens (2020) describes them as post-positivism, constructivism, transformative and pragmatic. Do you feel that one paradigm would be more useful than another in carrying out research dealing with the efficacy of teachers of gifted populations based on their understanding of those students?

For my PhD dissertation, I would like to study critical reading/creative writing in English classes. How can I design my research? And, also, I would like to use Web 2.0 tools. My students are gifted ones.

I am also open to other research ideas.

According to Roberts (2004), all children should have leadership skills with those displaying leadership talents nurtured for future leadership roles. I am agreed with this.

I like to find some recent research to write an article about "Leadership Development for Gifted Elementary Students"

Ref: Roberts, J. L. (2004). Leadership is a “must” for children who are gifted and talented. Gifted Child Today, 27(1), 5. http://doi.org/10.1177/107621750402700101

Hello!

I am nearly done with my M.Ed (C&I Gifted), and my passion is Twice-Exceptional (2e).

My current course's assignment is to complete a literature review. I have elected to examine three instructional strategies used to support the social-emotional learning (SEL) of twice-exceptional (2e) students.

Would anyone be willing to share recent research regarding this topic? The assignment parameters regarding research include the following: must be peer-reviewed AND be (ideally) published within the past 10 years OR be a foundational article by gurus in gifted education.

Warmly,

Connolly Sherwood

What research is there (if any), about gifted students frequently getting easy questions on academic tests/exams INCORRECT and harder more challenging ones CORRECT – particularly in mathematics? Does anyone have any empirical evidence as to why this might occur? Thank you.

I believe that the most intelligent strategy is to integrate this type of very creative persons in the research groups. Many researches have a high level of fear when they interact with gifted students or other gifted professors. This is completely absurd. The persons are different in their capacities and talents. Gifted persons can be very creative in certain areas such as mathematical analysis and not in social aspects for example. Gifted persons show tendency towards severe intellectual frustration, are chaotic in the methods of working, research in very different lines, show a low tolerance to stress, hypersensitivity, a bad adaptation to rigid academic hierarchies, etc... However, the gifted persons can help to integrate different specialties, are highly creative, with high productivity, work hard if they are motivated, are flexible and adaptable to different circumstances, etc.. . In a research group it is necessary to group the different aptitudes and characteristics of researchers. I believe that certain Universities are losing a huge amount of possibilities by mobbing against the gifted individuals. Obviously this is not good for the institutions and the society. Also, this can be a problem of discrimination with bad consequences for gifted researchers and their families. My main question is: Why this is permitted by certain institutions? Are there psychological or sociological studies that analyze these questions and their effects on educational organizations and the whole system?

We used in our center Virtual Worlds like Secondlife for presentation, networking, sharing and global virtual exchange. Now I would like to know how we could use Virtual Reality to help gifted children? If you have experience in one of these topics, please let me know.

I am a Senior High School teacher handling Creative writing and creative nonfiction. more often than not, for the past three years, observe those who can really write are those who are gifted with the skills and the rest just take the writing for granted by copying from the internet or let others do their jobs. obe of the reasons why is the limited vocabulary they have. Now, want to conduct classroom action research and planning to come up with an intervention material using colored patterned cards in improving their vocabulary

Thank you

I am doing a literature review regarding utilization of gifted strategies in a math class. Specifically, I am looking at how distance learning might impact math acceleration or math understanding for gifted students. What strategies with technology have you experienced with either negative or positive results?

I have been preparing and gathering information for a literature review on instructional strategies in the area of reading for gifted learners. Many journals I have come across reflect and discuss the importance of grouping, acceleration, and differentiated curriculum/instruction. I agree that these are vital in the growth and learning of gifted learners. I am curious if there are any other strategies that are also beneficial to gifted learners and providing accelerated reading opportunities?

Thank you,

Serena

I intented to apply an educational intervention to improve the academic achievement of highly able underachieving adolescents. I found 79 gifted underachievers in total (gifted underachievers constitute a limited research population by definition). However, only 18 of them participated in my intervention. I have pre-tests and post-tests of academic achievement for the total of 18 participants and 61 non participants, but I'm worried about the statistical power of comparisons (non parametrics) due to unequal sample sizes. What if I picked a random sample of 18-20 subjects for the group of non participants? SPSS offers the option to pick a random sample of subjects. Is this an acceptable way to reduce the unequality of sample sizes?

I have been gifted a culture flask of 3d7 falciparum strain. I want to genotype the parasites to be sure I truly working with 3d7 as other strains are also cultured in the same lab.

Dear colleagues, TCT-DP is known for its ability to check creativity. Since it is a drawing test, maybe there was an attempt to use it for artistic giftedness check?

If you have ever seen any info of that kind, please share.

Many thanks!

I hope for a global overview on mathematical giftedness and its support in school and/or on an extracurricular level. What programmes/opportunities are offered?

My colleagues and I issue a journal "Social Phenomena". It is an nonprofit independent platform for scholars who support the open science movement and wish to share their knowledge with others. The mission of our journal is to help authors share their ideas with the Russian-speaking scientific audience. We translate all articles into Russian and publish them for free in open access. We also do not charge authors any fees because we believe that there is no place for commerce in science.

The theme of the next issue is "Giftedness: the conditions and factors". We welcome all authors from various branches of science who are interested in this topic and want to make their research open to fellow Russian scholars.

The additional info is in the attached file and here http://journal.socialphenomena.org/en/

how can a teacher discover and identify a gifted and talented students in the first few days or weeks of interaction with the class?

How do you identify a gifted and talented child? What type of activity or test you can do?

Can it be done remotely in current circumstances?

The three mega findings of 1907 (gravitational redshift, gravitational light curvature, gravitational apparent reduction of c) are more than an excuse for overlooking a fourth mega implication of the same brain child.

The global constancy of c assumed at the outset does imply a fourth equally important implication: Optically masked gravitational size increase downstairs.

Who can blame Einstein for overlooking a fourth blossom in his unprecedented heavenly bucket?

So it is not his IQ that is put into jeopardy but that of the rest of humankind: for more than a century.

Posted on the evening of December 5, 2019 as a present to all children on St. Nicholas Day

Does anyone know of a vendor or recipe to prepare MB-1 myogenic culture medium?

I have seen in several publications and not a single one linked to manufacturer.

In one instance it was gifted by Jacques Tremblay and that was about it.

I also see Thermofisher as manufacturer but they do not have it. I will contact sales rep regarding this.

I have decided to use a specific cancer cell lines for my project. However, mostly I found only B16- OVA expressing cell lines and that too gifted from a lab. How can I engineer OVA antigen into my cell line?

I read different research about giftedness and genetic but I would like to ask you about this topic.

What do you think?

Whenever I had a pleasure to meet in my life with professional/Experts and Researcher, the one thing i realized in their life is common is the hard work and dedication. Usually, when they share their story, they start with that i am from the countryside, and we were living basic life at my childhood. So that means one thing in common that most of the researchers achieved the success through self-made hard working and dedication, no doubt that to be intelligent is a gifted blessing, but at the end of the day, the Hard work Wins...

What's your Idea and story.....

We have many types of schools include private, public, and gifted schools in Iran. Educational policy makers have currently confirmed a law in higher commission of education system to removing the gifted middle schools. This foundation decision has mainly created huge debates among educational researchers and mangers. Advocates argued that by conducting this policy, gifted students will earn more opportunities to interaction with ordinary persons, improve the quality of public schools, and have happier moments in public schools. Also, opponents believe that gifted schools give their students higher level learning experiences and move them toward a better future. It would be great to hear your experiences in your home or your personal ideas about having gifted schools for gifted students.

How can a teacher develop and bring out the full potential in a gifted and talented student? What are the method initiatives to be adopted in carry out this task without the students been stress up and fighting back during the developmental process of the training?

"Students who spend their energy trying to please others or chasing the academic brass ring often find themselves feeling burnt-out and unfulfilled. Conversely, students who are driven by internal goals, whether those goals conform to educational expectations or not, are likely to grow into self-actualized adults as long as we honour and protect who they are as individuals. "

The human cost of what we don't know! A very important issue to raise and pursue at least now, rather than later!

"I have little doubt you wish the same, but did you know that 1.4 million children in the United States alone are at risk of misdiagnosis and mismedication due to a lack of understanding about the affect being gifted has on their health and development? Did you know there is absolutely no required training for medical and mental health professionals to learn about how to recognize and respond to the physiological and psycho-emotional differences that gifted children experience each day?")

The gifted in the arts fields suffer from being labeled as underachievers because they are forced to succeed in curricula that include scientific materials that are not inclined to them, which causes their loss and the loss of opportunities to refine their talents .

I am writing a lit. review. I want to concentrate on gifted cluster classrooms in Elementary Schools. How can I narrow it down to a specific topic and include it with literacy?

Looking at earthworm exposed to various pesticides and want to look at their feces to see changes in the microbiome. Is there a company/org in the US who can help on this? This is for students in the 8th grade middle school gifted students program. We are located in Maryland.

Thanks 

(Note that this is for personal interest, and not related to my employer).

i have this article and it is so usefull for my research. for citing your article, i need the citing information. how can i cite your article? is it published?

L am looking for academic articles that address how teaching influence learning in music education where the group of students comprise gifted students who have music background and novices who are studying music for the first time at tertiary level.

for example, having a score of 130 on either the verbal comprehension or the perceptual organization ?

I'm interested in finding out connections between abilities to learn EFL and intellectual giftedness. I'd like to compare achievments in learning EFL with other school subjects of primary school children. I've met many people who did not appear to posses high intellectual abilities, but they were very quick and efficient to learn foreign languages (in native environment though). I'd like to know whether there is a connection of intelectual giftedness and foreign language acquisition, or the ability to learn a foreign language is independent of intellect. Do you know about any research connecting the general abilities of learners with foreign language learning?

What is an effective way to improve motivation in a gifted student who excels in math but doesn't like to do it. 

a copy of ready personality traits scale prepared elsewhere, with the norms and standards.

There's this notion that mixed ability education is the best without making slow learners feeling less of themselves. In some cases, mixed ability grouping do not necessarily help, instead it serves as a disincentive to the slow learner, and sometimes, some them may even exhibit some form of labelled characteristics of 'special education needs'. 

Trajectory of gifted education research.

The recent studies about the self regulated learning for the gifted students.

Thank you in advance...

When we know how important is education for all, to barbarism, ignorance and inequality prevailing in this wildly globalized world

As we explain that the effort is not engaged the attention of the less gifted or benefited by society.

Could it be that again, we neglect the great mass, and invest only in subjects that the political system requires, for the few jobs that offer creative quality?

For doing my graduade thesis, Iam interest with measuring gifted. Actually ,I have bought manual and instrument screening for identification of the gifted, but I can't adapt it in my country, because I must buy a research translation license agreement application with a great price (the license would be for use in research only for a particular study). I mean, I am looking for people who can work together to develop their instrument in my country. thanks very much.

WISC-R, Raven Color Test, Peabody,

Why popularity of gifted education increase at developing countries nowadays?

What should be done firstly in these countries at gifted education?