This study investigated the attitude toward reading and the self-reported reading behaviors of 276 gifted students in grades 1 through 12. Females had more positive attitudes toward reading and reported that reading was a hobby more frequently than males. Primary students had more positive attitudes toward reading than did senior high students. Primary students reported reading more books per month than intermediate level, junior high school, and senior high school students. Senior high school students reported reading the least number of books per month.
Paper-and-pencil tests yield little information relative to thinking strategies used by gifted students to solve problems. Protocal analysis, argues the author, provides a "window" into the mental operations used by gifted learners. The method is described, and results of recent work highlighted. Implications for additional research are discussed.
Hexagonal ABO3 oxides ( A, B = cation) are a class of rich materials for realizing novel quantum phenomena. Their hexagonal symmetry, oxygen trigonal bipyramid coordination, and quasi-two dimensional layering give rise to properties distinct from those of the cubic ABO3 perovskites. As bulk materials, most of the focus in this class of materials has been on the rare-earth manganites, RMnO3 ( R = rare earth); these materials display coupled ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetic order. In this review, we focus on the thin-film manifestations of the hexagonal ABO3 oxides. We cover the stability of the hexagonal oxides and substrates which can be used to template the hexagonal structure. We show how the thin-film geometry not only allows for further tuning of the bulk-stable manganites but also allows for the realization of metastable hexagonal oxides such as the RFeO3 that combine ferroelectricity with weak ferromagnetic order. The thin-film geometry is a promising platform to stabilize additional metastable hexagonal oxides to search for predicted high-temperature superconductivity and topological phases in this class of materials.
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