A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district

The What Is Happening In this Class? and Students' Adaptive Learning Engagement in Science questionnaires investigated differences between gifted and non-gifted middle-school students' perceptions of classroom learning environment and attitudes. The sample consisted of 495 students in Gra...

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Main Author: Koren, Justin Anthony
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1709
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description The What Is Happening In this Class? and Students' Adaptive Learning Engagement in Science questionnaires investigated differences between gifted and non-gifted middle-school students' perceptions of classroom learning environment and attitudes. The sample consisted of 495 students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 in 31 classes from 10 different schools. Significant but small differences emerged for the learning environment scale of Involvement and the attitudinal scale of Self-Regulation. For the learning environment scale of Cooperation, both the sex effect and the giftedness-by-sex interaction were statistically significant. Correlational analyses revealed that each of the six learning environment scales of the WIHIC was related positively and significantly with each of the four attitudinal scales of the SALES.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-17092017-02-20T06:37:41Z A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district Koren, Justin Anthony The What Is Happening In this Class? and Students' Adaptive Learning Engagement in Science questionnaires investigated differences between gifted and non-gifted middle-school students' perceptions of classroom learning environment and attitudes. The sample consisted of 495 students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 in 31 classes from 10 different schools. Significant but small differences emerged for the learning environment scale of Involvement and the attitudinal scale of Self-Regulation. For the learning environment scale of Cooperation, both the sex effect and the giftedness-by-sex interaction were statistically significant. Correlational analyses revealed that each of the six learning environment scales of the WIHIC was related positively and significantly with each of the four attitudinal scales of the SALES. 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1709 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Koren, Justin Anthony
A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district
title A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district
title_full A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district
title_fullStr A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district
title_full_unstemmed A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district
title_short A comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district
title_sort comparative study of gifted and non-gifted middle-school students in terms of classroom environment and attitudes within a large urban school district
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1709