“…Students' interpretations of what it means to have been previously identified as gifted also can shape their perceptions of their abilities and, as a result, how they respond to academic challenges in their engineering programs. While some researchers believe giftedness is associated with a fixed mindset regarding intelligence (i.e., gifted students possess an innate ability for academic success; Dweck, 2000;Lohman & Korb, 2006;Simonton, 2005), others have shown that the term "giftedness" is not necessarily associated with beliefs about innate ability (Makel, Snyder, Thomas, Malone, & Putallaz, 2015;Snyder, Barger, Wormington, Schwartz-Bloom, Linnenbrink-Garcia, 2013). Thus, there is not only disagreement among students regarding the relationship between giftedness and ability, but there is also variability among how researchers perceive this relationship.…”