The identification of the gifted in a culturally-different segment of a high school
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Date
1987
Authors
Sheen, Alice F
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1987
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the student
population of a particular minority group of Native students
in a southern Alberta high school, to determine if there
were Native students who could be identified as gifted.
Five classes of students containing one-third to onehalf
Native students served as subjects. The classroom
teacher of each class supplied the data for each subject
by completing an instrument designed to test gifted characteristics.
The study attempted to determine the potential for
giftedness that existed among the Native students of this
school. Exploratory methods were used to explore and
diagnose the data. The use of these exploratory methods
failed to provide any evidence of any significant difference
in the potential for giftedness between the Native or the
non-Native students.
The conclusion of the study was that giftedness was
a difficult area to research because of the abstract nature
of the terminology and the characteristics. The interpretation
of the data showed that there were Native students
in this school who have definite tendencies of giftedness. There was very little difference in the percentage of gifted
traits between the Native students and the non-Native students.
If judged on an equal basis, Native students will demonstrate
equal proportion of competence with non-Native students.
Description
viii, 48 leaves : ill., ; 28 cm. --
Keywords
Gifted children -- Education -- Alberta -- Evaluation , Indigenous peoples -- Alberta -- Education , Multicultural education -- Alberta