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Köksal, Mustafa Serdar; Firat, Esra Açikgül; Akkaya, Gamze – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2021
This study explores the association between intellectual risk taking and science achievement of gifted students and difference in grade levels and gender. The participants were 122 sixth, seventh and eighth grade gifted students in Turkey. In data collection, "science achievement test" and "intellectual risk taking scale in learning…
Descriptors: Correlation, Risk, Science Achievement, Academically Gifted
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Hatchimonji, Danielle R.; Vaid, Esha; Linsky, Arielle C. V.; Nayman, Sam J.; Yuan, May; MacDonnell, Marisa; Elias, Maurice J. – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2022
In the current study, we sought to understand relations among the key intervention targets of social-emotional and character development (SECD) interventions: character virtues, Positive Purpose, and social-emotional learning (SEL). Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students (n = 1011, ages 11 to 16, M = 12.94, SD = 1.00) from five urban middle…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Values Education, Intervention, Moral Development
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Froiland, John Mark; Mayor, Päivi; Herlevi, Marjaana – School Psychology International, 2015
Numerous studies indicate that intrinsic motivation predicts academic achievement. However, relatively few have examined various subtypes of intrinsic motivation that predict overall achievement, such as motivation for exercise and physical activity. Based upon the 16 basic desires theory of personality, the current study examined the motives of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, High School Students, Physical Activities, Student Motivation
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Piirto, Jane; Fraas, John – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012
Two groups of adolescents (N = 114), 61 identified-gifted adolescents (M = 22, F = 39) and 51 vocational school adolescents (M = 27, F = 26), were compared on the Overexcitability Questionnaire. Each of the five Overexcitability (OE) scores--Psychomotor, Sensual, Imaginational, Intellectual, and Emotional--was subjected to a two-way ANOVA by…
Descriptors: Gifted, Questionnaires, Effect Size, Gender Differences
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Ahmavaara, Anni; Houston, Diane M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: Dweck has emphasized the role of pupils' implicit theories about intellectual ability in explaining variations in their engagement, persistence and achievement. She has also highlighted the role of confidence in one's intelligence as a factor influencing educational attainment. Aim: The aim of this paper is to develop a model of…
Descriptors: Students, Educational Attainment, Academic Aspiration, Intelligence