• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.649-667
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• 2015

This study handled underachievement issue of gifted students by developing and validating educational programs as a solution, or relief, of their academic underachievement problems. The proposed educational program was designed to enhancing reading comprehension ability of gifted students with underachievement. Based on comprehensive literature review, this study found that key issues of underachievement have to do with learning strategy, and also that learning strategy was established as 'reading comprehension strategy.' Considering diverse reading comprehension models and strategies suggested by preceding studies, the reading comprehension strategy program in Korean was customized for underachieving gifted students on the middle school level. The effectiveness of the reading comprehension strategy program as a solution to underachievement of gifted students was explored by applying the developed program to 36 identified students after school twice a week for 6 weeks, conducting pre- and post-tests that were selected to measure their reading comprehension abilities, collecting their academic achievement data before and after the intervention by this study, and interviewing students. As the results of this study, reading metacognition ability, reading comprehension skills, and school grades of gifted students with underachievement were meaningfully improved as a group. On the individual level, 12 identified students, exactly one third of the whole group of underachieving gifted students, showed so improved academic achievement as we can say they overcame underachievement based on the Supplee's definition.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.575-596
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• 2012

Students' perception on a science program for gifted was investigated. The whole program was designed in consistency and integrity based on the Autonomous Learner Model suggested by Betts & Kercher(1999). 7th, 8th and 9th grade students were enrolled in this program, offered by G Education Institute for Gifted(GEI) located in Seoul. A survey was done to ask students' perception regarding the effect of the program. The survey consisted of statements about the expected effects of the program and students were asked if they agreed with the statements. Most students strongly agreed that GEI's program has positive effects. Students replied that they learned useful and interesting science contents, enjoyed meaningful experience of cooperating with members in small groups, and were challenged by the inquiry tasks. They recognized that they were being trained to become autonomous learners. They also said that their choices and decisions were respected, which resulted in positive effects on their ability to negotiate or to inquire actively. These implies that Autonomous Learner Model had been successfully applied. Although it was not clear autonomy of students was fully grown, the possibility of becoming an autonomous learner was evident. Satisfaction level is higher for the older students, implying that the integrity in the program gave accumulating effect. Students response showed that three sub-programs of GEI, the classes of each subject, conference at the end of the year and autonomous learner training played equally important role for students to learn the process of scientific inquiry and autonomous learning. This was a positive sign that the strategies for scientific inquiry and autonomous learning were embedded and integrated deeply in the program. The results of current research suggests that the integrity of a program based on a specific education model for the gifted could provide better education environment for the gifted students.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2019

In this paper, virtual reality programming modules were developed for software education advanced courses in elementary and middle schools. And the effectiveness of the developed module was also analyzed. As the result, virtual reality programming module developed in this study was proven to be suitable for software education advanced courses required after basic coding in elementary and middle school. In particular, it is expected that it will be very helpful for the information gifted education program which is carried out in 2,920 gifted education institutions nationwide. Also, it is expected that it will be suitable for STEM education.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.64 no.5
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• pp.277-290
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• 2020

In this study, four gifted students in the second year of middle school at Gifted Education Center of the National University in Jeollanam-do were surveyed students' perceptions of the effectiveness of science class using science writing heuristic in terms of metacognition and the goals of the 2015 revised science curriculum. Through questionnaires and interviews with gifted science students, science gifted students recognized that the science class using science writing heuristic had a positive effect on the four subdomains (planning, monitoring, control, and evaluation) of metacognition. For this reason, the science gifted students presented self-directed experience in designing experiments, continually checking the collected experimental data, feedback process, and reflecting experience in preparing conclusions. Science gifted students recognized that science class using science writing heuristic had a positive effect on the goals of the 2015 revised science curriculum(attitudes, inquiry, knowledge, Science·Technology·Society(STS), and the enjoyment and usefulness of science learning) that correspond to through inquiry science writing lessons. For this reason, the science gifted students presented self-directed inquiry experiences, continual inquiry experiences on the same subject, thinking process at each stage of inquiry, learning experiences through inquiry, experience of the whole inquiry process, and inquiry of phenomena closely related to real life. Therefore, for the effective science class, it is necessary to apply the characteristics of science class using science writing heuristic which is responded by science gifted students to general science class as well as science gifted class later.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.175-203
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• 2010

Among many factors that affect the development of the talent of gifted children, the family factor that first finds and cultivates the talent of gifted children is quite important. The researches on the family of gifted children are mostly concentrated on physical environment out of the home environment, neglecting psychological environment. Although the recreational activity of family with gifted children considerably contributes to the emotional, intellectual and social development of gifted children themselves and to the improvement of life quality of the family members, the recreation of family with gifted children has not yet been studied. Thus, the objective of this research is to present basic materials for seeking the direction to educate parents and to support family with gifted children in order to encourage synergy effect in emotional and social growth of family with gifted children by surveying the property of recreation of family with gifted children. The result of result is as follows. First, the type of family with gifted children tends to be remarkably biased to 'family-oriented activity' and 'elf-development activity.' Second, verifying the significant level of motive for recreational activity of family with gifted children at the variables such as number of family members, parents' age, parents' education level, parents' occupation, etc, it was concluded that they were not statistically significant. The result of this research suggests that education and support for efficient recreation of family with gifted children is necessary to achieve healthy talent of gifted children.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.337-356
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of the Astronomical Learning Program Using IIM on Science Process Skills and Scientific Attitudes in the elementary scientific gifted students. For this purpose, this research developed the Astronomical Learning Program Using IIM. This program was totally consisted 7 lessen. There was 7 part in this program. It contained Select the subject (step 1), The aim settings (step 2), Collect the data (step 3), Doing inquiry (step 4), An aim evaluation (step 5), Making a report (step 6), Announcing (step 7). To find the effect of the Astronomical Learning Program Using IIM on Science Process Skills and Scientific Attitudes in the elementary scientific gifted students. 20 participants was selected. These students were attended at a scientific gifted class(3rd grade) of an elementary school located in Ulsan. First, Science Process Skills test and Scientific Attitudes test was used to find the effect of the Astronomical Learning Program Using IIM. And the results were analyzed by SPSS WIN 18.0. The results of this study were as follows. First, the Astronomical Learning Program Using IIM was a positive effects on Science Process Skills of elementary scientific gifted students (F=4.920, p=.021). Second, the Astronomical Learning Program Using IIM was a positive effects on Scientific Attitudes of the elementary scientific gifted students (F=11.244, p=.001). According to this research, the Astronomical Learning program Using IIM was verified to improve Science Process Skills and Scientific Attitudes on the elementary scientific gifted students. It will be contribute on the curriculum construction of the gifted school or gifted class.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.671-681
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• 2002

The idea that parental involvement has a positive influence on gifted children is so intuitively appearing that society in general. and educators in particular, have considered parental involvement as the remedy for many problems in education. However the vast proportion of the literatures in this area give results qualitatively. Among the empirical studies that have investigated this issue quantitatively, there appear to be considerable inconsistencies. A meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize the quantitative literatures about the relationship between parental involvement and gifted development. The findings reveal a moderate relationship between parental involvement and gifted development. We focused on the effect between parental involvement and gifted development, and conducted meta-analysis involving correlation coefficients between the two constructs. Using correlation coefficients, We can get the effect size, and explain the influence. We initially identified 539 articles over twelve-year period. Based on abstracts of these 539 articles, 463 studies were used for analyzing the current stream of the study. Finally, 15 studies met our inclusion criteria, and were subsequently used in this meta-analysis. From the 15 studies, 37 variables influenced on gifted development were collected. Using meta-analysis, it is revealed that internal effects for gifted development have stronger relationship than parents' socioeconomic status. In addition, the differences between female and male student have been reducing.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.365-373
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• 2011

A basic ability test is conducted in recent days to screen gifted students who could make a contribution to the enhancement of national competitiveness in knowledge-based information society. A basic ability is here defined as an ability related to creativity and thinking faculty, and CS literacy is ruled out, though it seems that everybody needs CS literacy in knowledge-based information society. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between CS literacy and giftedness. The subjects in this study were 61 gifted students. The selected students participated in an CS program during a six-week period of time in order to find out the effect of the program. And it's found that there were gaps among the students in CS literacy according to the level of giftedness, and information science literacy has a statistically significant correlation to giftedness. Therefore a screening test of gifted students should cover CS literacy, as CS literacy seems to be mandatory for every field of information society.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.907-925
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• 2011

This study is a report about the two summer camps of 2009 and 2010, which were held by some gifted classes of Liberal Arts areas in Chungnam Province. The students' self- directed methods, making an own project topic and an outline plan for that by students themselves before the camp, raised up the students' satisfaction of the camp effectively. Staying with their peer students and teachers for 3 days gave the gifted students a chance for relationship, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency. These joint summer camps provided the students with cognitive development, motivations and a chance to meet other gifted students. Teachers' preparation for the camp, their concrete feedback to each student's project, and students' time spending on one's own camp project were correlated with the students' satisfaction of the camp program. Experience of teacher training in gifted education made significant differences in understanding gifted students and expectations of students' social and emotional development throughout and after the camp.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.127-147
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• 1999

본 연구는 마인드맵이 아동의 작문수행에 미치는 효과를 연구하기 위해 이루어졌다. 연구 대상자는 초등학교 6학년 학생 78명(2학급)으로, 각 학급을 실험집단과 통제집단에 각각 무선으로 배정하고 사전검사를 실시하였다. 이어서 10차시에 걸친 실험을 실시하고 실험을 마친 다음날 직후검사를 하였다. 실험의 파지효과를 알아보기 위해서는 실험 종류 1주 후에 파지검사를 실시하였다. 본 연구에서 사용된 측정도구는 작문검사(사전검사, 직후검사 및 파지검사)이다. 작문의 채점에 있어서는 2명의 채점자가 분석적 평가 기준에 따라 채점한 것을 합산하여 사용하였다. 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 1) 마인드맵이 아동의 작문수행에 미치는 효과는 긍정적이었다. 2) 마인드맵이 아동의 작문수행에 미치는 효과는 지속적이었다. 이러한 연구결과는 아이디어를 창출하고 아이디어를 조작하며 글을 개정하는 과정에서 마인드맵이 유용한 학습도구로서 이용될 수 있음을 시사해준다. 또한 정규교실에 있는 영재아들에게도 양반구의 기능을 고루 활용하는 마인드맵이 독자적인 학습방법으로 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 보인다.