• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.831-846
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• 2010

The Purposes of this study were to compare the level of study habits and test anxiety between gifted middle-school students and non-gifted and to find out the correlation between study habits and test anxiety in two groups. The total participants of this study were 437 middle school students. One hundred eighty three students (127 boys, 56 girls) belonged to gifted group who were enrolled in Cyber Education Center for Math & Science Gifted Students of KAIST in Daejeon. And two hundred fifty four (128 boys, 126 girls) were non-gifted group who were from the middle school in Seoul City and Gyeonggi province. The results revealed that the level of study habits of gifted middle school students was higher than that of non-gifted. And gifted group felt lower level of test anxiety than non-gifted group. Additionally gifted boys showed significantly higher level of study skills application behavior than gifted girls.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.157-171
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• 2012

This study compared the difference of perfectionism, academic stress, learning flow, analyzed the perfectionism impact on academic stress and learning flow between gifted and non-gifted in Elementary school children. The subjects of this study were 100 fifth grade gifted students and 100 ordinary students who showed academic achievement of the same level. According to the results of this study, gifted students showed higher self-oriented perfectionism and socially prescribed perfectionism than general students. Both gifted and general students, the higher socially prescribed perfectionism, the more increased academic stress increased. And the higher self-oriented perfectionism, the more increased learning flow. Gifted and general student's learning flow is high when self-oriented perfectionism is low and academic stress.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.23-41
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to develop the instruments which can measure motivation as a component of Visual Artistic Giftedness with in elementary school period. This study prescribed the variable factors of measurement after abstract and classify the characteristics of Visual Artistic Giftedness through literature studies. And it produced instruments those are finally composed of 27 items through the preliminary test. They were evaluated in terms of content validity, construct validity, and reliability by implementing them to 679 elementary school children from the first to sixth grades. Statistical analyses were carried out to verify the validities and reliability. Content validity was found to be satisfactory by experts' evaluation on the test items. Construct validity was also found to be satisfactory through factor analyses which showed the four factors which the identification instruments were intended to measure such as, interest/ attitude/ taste, endurance/ concentration, curiosity/ imagination! sensitiveness, aesthetic. Concurrent validity was also found to be satisfactory with high coeffients of Barron- Welsh which were calculated as .76 in motivation. In conclusion, the instruments about motivation of Visual Artistic Giftedness during elementary school period developed by this study are highly reliable on its reliability and validity.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.39-57
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• 2001

In this study, gifted children's perceptions of scientists were investigated. The subjects were 91 elementary students who were registered in educational program for the gifted. This study was conducted using Draw-A-Scientist-Test (DAST) and questionnaires about the life of scientists. As the results, most scientists were depicted as well-featured and young people. There was a tendency that boys mainly described scientists as male, but girls as female. Many of the students perceived scientists as those who did significant works to try to help other people and pursue the novelty The general perceptions of the gifted on scientists were positive. Majority of students, however, perceived that scientists worked indoors with glassware or chemicals. Relatively, fewer students described books, other materials, and technologies including computer. Many of the students perceived scientists＇work as research or invention. Concerning working pattern, students mainly replied that scientists worked alone. In order to make students＇restricted perceptions enhance for opened and flexible manner, various educational methods need to be implemented.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.621-647
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate of the K-SRBCSS (Korean Version of Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students), considering educational-social context and linguistic differences. The developed K-SRBCSS includes 58 items, which are consisted of 55 items from translation of original SRBCSS into Korean and three newly developed items that reflect Korean situation. Teachers and parents rated students' behavioral characteristics about 58 items in 6 scales. The results of this study were as follows. K-SRBCSS is valid and reliable scale. The differences of the rating of characteristics between gifted students and general students if significant. Gifted students got higher scores on every scales than general students. It means K-SRBCSS is useful to discriminate the gifted. The differences of the rating between parents and teachers showed insignificant results, which mean that teachers and parents rate students's characteristics similarly. K-SRBCSS will be a very useful scale that could find some hidden talents if this scales would use complementarily with other sophistication methods in identifying the gifted.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.51-76
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Structure of Intellect( SOI) program for children. To achieve this purpose, 81 second grade children were sampled in a elementary school located In Seoul-city and randomly assigned to the experimental group and control group The SO1 training program were treated to the experimental group for 10 weeks, and the 'Thinking Abilities Test developed by Korea Creativity Research Institute were administered to them for pre-test and post-test. The collected data were analyzed by t-test for comparing the group means of experimental group and control group 'I'he results of this study were as follows : Firstly ere were statistically significant differences between experimental group and control group on the post-test scores of arithmetic[t(79)=2.73p,< .01] and visual memory[t(79)-3.68,p <.001]. The mean scores of experimental group(M=8.63) u ere higher than that of control group(Mz7.34) on arithmetic, and the mean scores to experimental group(M=16.68) were higher than that of control group(M=15 32) on visual memory Secondly there were no statistically significant differences between experimental group and control group on the post-test scores of logistic thinking abilities[t(79)=0.22, p>.05] and abstract thinking abilities[t(79)-0.22, p>.051. Thirdly, the post-test scores of visual memory and logical thinking abilities were more increased in the low intelligence group than the high intelligence group. This result showed that the SO1 program were more effective for the low intelligence group. Fourthly, the post-test scores of visual memory and logical thinking abilities were more increased in the low achievement group than the high achievement group. This result showed that the SO1 program were more effective for the low achievement group.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2018

This study aims to analyze the mathematics curriculum in the gifted school and obtain the understanding of the current situation of education for the math-gifted children in Korea, therefore providing a point of view for the improvements. In order to attain these purposes, the study examined the subject competency for the mathematics set by regular mathematics curriculum system and 2015 revision curriculum, and extracted the analytical standards, based on which the education plan documents of each gifted school were analyzed. The conclusion that has been made based on the analysis results is as follows. First of all, the curriculum of mathematics in the gifted schools in korea is heavily concentrated on analytics and algebra. Secondly, in mathematics curriculum for gifted children in Korea puts the most emphasis on the problem solving competency. Third, geometry subject in the mathematics curriculum of Korean gifted schools deals with the given content only at the level of regular high school curriculum. Fourth, learning materials in most gifted schools are not the ones especially revised and adapted for the gifted students but usually the ones for the college students. Lastly, gifted schools are running the curriculum featured with curriculum compacting and advance learning focusing on acceleration.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-27
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• 2004

Our purpose is to make up criteria for children's motivation of achievement and develop them into reliable that effectively fit the domestic situations, through testing its reliability and validity. With a view to developing those criteria, questionnaire items were drawn out from our basic investigation and preliminary study, and reliability and validity were tested. For this, we carried out a survey from October 25, 2003 to November 7, 2003 on 586 children who were attending two primary schools in Seoul, in 5th and 6th grade, and analyzed the results. Out of 81 questionnaire items constructed through the preliminary study, we extracted 68 items which show satisfactory level of discrimination with $x^2$ confidence level p<.0l and V coefficient greater than .25. The factor analysis was performed on the 68 items and 49 items were extracted which have eigen value greater than 1 and factor load greater than .30. Then regression analysis was applied so that 13 items were taken out of consideration for the criteria, whose incremental contribution to the explained proportion due to regression turned out to be less than 3%. As a result, a total of 36 items were selected as the final measurement criteria was assessed by Cronbach' $\alpha$ coefficient for the items, and we obtained its value of .85 which is at a satisfactory level. The developed criteria has proven to be a useful tool for measuring domestic children's motivation of achievement.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.449-463
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of Multiple Intelligence Scales for Young Korean Children (MIS-YKC). Participants of this study were 357 children's parents and teachers from Seoul, Gyeongdo, Jeonlado & Choongchungdo. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis, Pearson's r and Cronbach's ${\alpha}$. Results are as follows. (1) Confirmatory factor analysis of MIS-YKC for parents MIS-YKC revealed that fit indices such as $X^2$=365.712 (df=168, p=.000), RMSEA=.057, SRMR=.047, NNFI=.935, CFI=.948. and MIS-KYC by teacher's evaluation $X^2$=436.765 (df=168, p=.000), RMSEA=.066, SRMR=.051, NNFI=.917, CFI=.934. (2) Correlations between multiple intelligence scales and IQ were significant. (3) Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ ranged from .80 and .86 for seven intelligence scales and .95 for the total scale by parents' evaluation. Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ is ranged from .76 and .91 for seven intelligence scales and .95 for the total scale by teacher's evaluation. All these results show that the multiple intelligence scales for young Korean children parents and teachers are quite reliable and valid.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.131-153
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• 2001

The importance of identifying gifted children during early childhood is becoming recognized. Nonetheless, most researchers preferred to study the primary and secondary levels where children are already and more clearly demonstrating what talents they have, and where more reliable predictions of gifted may be made. Comparatively lisle work has been done in this area. When we identify giftedness during early childhood, we have to consider the potential of the young children rather than on actual achievement. Giftedness during early childhood is still developing and less stable than that of older children and this prevents us from making firm and accurate predictions based on children's actual achievement. Dynamic assessment, based on Vygotsky's concept of the zone of proximal development(ZPD), suggests a new idea in the way the gifted young children are identified. In light of dynamic assessment, for identifying the potential giftedness of young children. we need to involve measuring both unassisted and assisted performance. Dynamic assessment usually consists of a test-intervene-retest format that focuses attention on the improvement in child performance when an adult provides mediated assistance on how to master the testing task. The advantages of the dynamic assessment are as follows: First, the dynamic assessment approach can provide a useful means for assessing young gifted child who have not demonstrated high ability on traditional identification method. Second, the dynamic assessment approach can assess the learning process of young children. Third, the dynamic assessment can lead an individualized education by the early identification of young gifted children. Fourth, the dynamic assessment can be a more accurate predictor of potential by linking diagnosis and instruction. Thus, it can make us provide an educational treatment effectively for young gifted children.