Attrition patterns in a summer program for gifted junior high students

Kunkel, Mark A.; Pittman, Ann M.; Curry, Evans W.; Hildebrand, S. K.; Walling, Derald

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“…Funded by a large communications and engineering organization (the GTE Service Corporation), TTU/GTE-PREP is an eight-week intensive exposure to engineering, business, mathematics, science and computer science for gifted junior high and high school students (Kunkel, Pittman, Curry, Hildebrand, & Walling, 1991; Walling &White, 1988). Prior to beginning the course, students identify a primary interest in either business or engineering.…”

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Expectations of Gifted Junior High Students for a Summer Enrichment Program: A Concept Map

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Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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Intervention with the gifted through summer programs is briefly discussed with particular attention to student expectations. An argument is made for theoretically based research on the academic expectations of gifted adolescents. Concept mapping is described as an alternative methodological approach to such research, and a concept map is presented of gifted students' expectations for a summer enrichment program. Findings are discussed as they relate to research and intervention with gifted adolescents, and implications for follow-up are outlined.

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Expectations of Gifted Junior High Students for a Summer Enrichment Program: A Concept Map

Kunkel

Pittman

Hildebrand

et al. 1994

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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“…As a first step in evaluating Tinto's model, we completed a two-year attrition autopsy study (Kunkel, Pittman, Curry & Walling, 1990) in which we examined drop-out patterns as they related to student age, school year, gender, ethnic background, socio-economic status (SES), program emphasis and previous school performance. We were somewhat surprised to find that only SES and school year consistently predicted student drop-out.…”

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