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Ethics and Giftedness
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Sternberg, Robert J. – High Ability Studies, 2009
Is there an ethical giftedness, and if so, what does it look like? In this article, I consider why ethical behavior is much harder to come by than one would expect. Ethically gifted individuals are able to complete a series of eight steps to action, the failure of any one of which may result in a person, even one who is ethically well trained, to…
Descriptors: Gifted, Ethics, Behavior Patterns, Universities
Assessing Learning-Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices
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Goldring, Ellen; Porter, Andrew; Murphy, Joseph; Elliott, Stephen N.; Cravens, Xiu – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2009
Effective school leadership is key to students' academic success. But the development of effective school leadership has been seriously hampered by the lack of technically sound tools to assess and monitor leaders' performance. This article presents the research base and conceptual framework for a leadership assessment instrument under…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Academic Achievement
A Test of a Model of Achievement Behaviors.
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Ethington, Corinna A. – American Educational Research Journal, 1991
The work of J. Eccles and others (1983) in proposing an integrative theoretical model of achievement behaviors was extended using data from the Second International Mathematics Study. Strong support was found for the constructs identified by the model as determinants of the intention to take more mathematics courses. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cohort Analysis, Course Selection (Students), Grade 8