Self‐perception and motivational orientation in gifted children

Changes in emotional resilience: Gifted adolescent females

“…A study by Li (1988) supports the concept that 4th and 7th grade gifted females have a good self-perception in scholastics. Li's research measures self-perception in the areas of scholastic, social, athletic, appearance, conduct and self-worth.…”

Learning potentials of gifted students

“…Non-intellectual behavior characteristics found to distinguish students with high ability include higher levels of anxiety (Tallent-Runnels, Olivarez, Lotven, Walsh, Gray & Irons, 1994), a more positive attitude toward subject matter (Hoover & Feldhusen, 1990), greater task commitment (Renzulli, 1986;Tannenbaum, 1983), intense interest (Borkowski & Peck, 1986;Kanevsky, 1992), a more positive, task-related selfconcept (Clark, 1992;Li, 1988), and a more intrinsic motivation orientation (Li, 1988). A few of these studies are described.…”

“…Empirical studies have explored the nature of the relationships between learning and variables as diverse as EEGs (Eysenck & Barrett, 1993), desk arrangement (Rosenfield, Lamber & Black, 1985), self-concept (Li, 1988) and hypothesis generation (Hoover & Feldhusen, 1990). Although many produce statistically significant group differences, substantial individual differences are also apparent (Kanevsky, 1992).…”

Programa de enriquecimiento de la creatividad para alumnas sobresalientes de zonas marginadas

“…Ongoratoy Casullo (2004); Kondor (2007); Li (1998);Suárez y Fernández (2005) quienes enfatizaron la importancia de mantener una alta motivación debido a que ésta se relaciona con el proceso de aprendizaje y que se establece a partir de las propias necesidades e intereses de los alumnos para que logren disfrutar su aprendizaje a través de un compromiso serio con proyectos escolares y de esta manera fomentar una mayor motivación hacia tareas o actividades de la escuela.…”