The topic of underachievement and how to reverse it has received a great deal of attention in the gifted education literature. The present study sought to add to the knowledge base on this issue by investigating the occurrence of underachievement behaviors and their predictors in a population of highly gifted students attending a summer…

The purpose of this study is to present students' experiences, interest in engineering, and personal narratives while participating in a robotics summer camp in a metropolitan city in Turkey. In this study, I used qualitative data collection methods such as interviews, field notes, and observations. I used the four principles of Engle and Conant…

Speleology - the study of caves - was the focus of this article in which students visited caves and learned the necessary skills needed for their excursion. (Author/RK)

In the summer of 1975 a program to improve reading and mathematics skills for pregnant school age girls was implemented in New York City. The program was designed to provide continuity of instruction in reading and mathematics from spring to fall for girls who were at least two years behind in reading and mathematics achievement. The summer…

From "Student Travel 1969, an annual student travel section.

The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) was used to assess self actualization in 266 gifted junior and senior high school students and a control group from urban and rural junior and senior high schools. Greater self actualization was noted for the gifted sample, whose POI scores most closely resembled those of college juniors and seniors. No…

THE FINAL REPORT OF A STUDY INVOLVING CHILDREN DURING THE SUMMER AFTER FIRST GRADE IS PRESENTED. THE STUDY WAS DESIGNED FOR THESE PURPOSES--(1) TO DETERMINE THE READING LOSS OR GAIN OF FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN DURING THE SUMMER OF 1965 AND 1966, (2) TO DEVELOP AND PRESENT A SUMMER READING PROGRAM BY TELEVISION, AND (3) TO TEST THE NULL HYPOTHESIS THAT…

The growing number of high-risk, culturally deprived students, without adequate pre-college instruction, have little chance of academic success. Spartanburg Junior College, South Carolina, studied several summer preparatory programs and found that they (1) assumed all students started from and arrived at a certain same point in their educational…

This is the NSF 1970 Summer Institute Participant Questionnaire, consisting of seven sections with a total of 105 items, and its covering letter. (For related documents, see TM 002 379, 382.) (DB)

To justify school administration support of summer agriculture programs, vocational agriculture teachers must prepare and present detailed plans. The author offers a list of sixteen goals as an example of activities that should be in every vocational agriculture summer program. (MF)

A comprehensive, inservice staff renewal program is described. (MM)