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ERIC Number: ED670181
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 140
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-5381-4738-0
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Available Date: 0000-00-00
Description of Parents' Knowledge of the Nature and Needs of Gifted Children and Their Parenting Styles
Heather Keenan
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Youngstown State University
To support the parents of gifted children, school leaders need to provide informative, research-based parent workshops that share information about the nature and needs of gifted children and effective parenting strategies. There is very little research about the parents of gifted children in the parenting practices (Jolly & Matthews, 2012). This lack of information creates a problem for schools that want to create workshops. The purpose of this study was to use a quantitative, descriptive survey design to assess the perceived knowledge about the nature and needs of gifted children and the perceived parenting styles of a sample of parents with gifted children. Online surveys were sent to the parents of gifted children from four public-schools resulting in 985 total participants. The findings revealed that 58% of participants stated that they want more information about gifted children, and 84% responded that they would attend a parent presentation if it was offered. Only 36% of participants said their school offered a gifted parent presentation; however, 67% reported that they attended. In looking at the participants' level of knowledge, 53% of participants were in the low-level knowledge category. This finding confirmed the need for school leaders to provide information about the nature and needs of gifted children to parents through parent workshops. The final findings were that 90.8% of parents use the authoritative parenting style, 1.4% use the permissive parenting style, and 0% use the authoritarian parenting style. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education; Adult Education
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Language: English
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