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Nielsen Pereira; Sarah Bright; Zafer Ozen; Shahnaz Safitri; Hernan Castillo-Hermosilla; Brenda C. Matos; Tugce Karatas; Pedro Fonseca – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
Technology is an increasingly omnipresent and rapidly changing component of today's world. As a result, there is an urgency to develop talent in the field of computer science (CS). The purpose of this article is to examine ways that educational systems can develop students' talents to fill the need for skilled CS professionals. We provide an…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computer Science, Computer Science Education, Talent Development
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Ihrig, Lori M.; Assouline, Susan G.; Mahatmya, Duhita; Lynch, Stephanie G. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2022
This study uses a naturalistic inquiry approach to investigate how rural educators navigate the affordances and barriers of implementing an out-of-school program to identify and develop middle school STEM talent in rural communities. At the time of this study, the STEM program was in its fourth year of implementation. Participants included 34…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Rural Schools, Middle School Students, Talent Development
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Fletcher, Edward C., Jr.; Hines, Erik M.; Ford, Donna Y.; Grantham, Tarek C.; Moore, James L., III – European Journal of Training and Development, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the role of school stakeholders (e.g. advisory board members, school administrators, parents, teachers and school board members) at a 99% black academy in promoting the achievement and broadening participation of high school black students in engineering career pathways. Design/methodology/approach: The authors…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, High Schools, Engineering Education, Career Pathways
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Tay, Juliana; Salazar, Alissa; Lee, Hyeseong – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
Most pre-kindergarten (pre-K) and kindergarten curricula are challenging and engaging, but few are strongly grounded in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. In this study, the authors examined parental perception (N = 55) of the influences of a Saturday STEM enrichment program in one university center on pre-K and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes
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Trinter, Christine P.; Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative study was to provide empirical evidence of the extent to which the types of tasks recommended by Sheffield for eliciting characteristics of mathematical promise allowed for the manifestation of these characteristics in primary-grade students within a problem-based learning (PBL) context. Data included student work…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving
Jen, Enyi; Moon, Sidney M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
This retrospective qualitative study was designed to investigate perceptions of the learning experiences of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)-talented male students who were in a self-contained, single-gender, gifted program in a selective high school in Taiwan. Twenty-four graduates of the high school's gifted program…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Self Contained Classrooms, High School Students, Academically Gifted
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Mullet, Dianna R.; Kettler, Todd; Sabatini, AnneMarie – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
This qualitative study was conducted to explore gifted students' conceptions of their high school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Participants were seven male and female college freshmen selected from the Honors College of a large research university. In-depth interviews captured students' retrospective accounts…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academically Gifted, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes