Methodologies for Conducting Research on Giftedness - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1433807149 ISBN 13 : 9781433807145

Editeur : American Psychological Association, 2010

Synopsis

Bruce Thompson and Rena F. Subotnik have gathered a distinguished group of pioneers in measurement and statistics to offer creative solutions to a number of methodological challenges in research centered on gifted children.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bruce Thompson is a distinguished professor and distinguished research fellow of educational psychology and a distinguished professor of library sciences, Texas A amp M University. He is also an adjunct professor of family and community medicine, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston). He has been coeditor of the teaching, learning, and human development section of the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ:TLHD), and past editor of Educational and Psychological Measurement, the series, Advances in Social Science Methodology, and two other journals. He is the author/editor of 2 2 articles, and several books, including the recently published Foundations of Behavioral Statistics. His contributions have been especially influential in moving the field as regards greater emphasis on effect size reporting and interpretation, and promoting improved understanding of score reliability.
 
Rena F. Subotnik, PhD, began her position as director of the Center for Psychology in the Schools and Education at the American Psychological Association (APA) in January 2 2. From 98 through 2 , Dr. Subotnik was a professor at Hunter College, where she coordinated the secondary education program and served as research and curriculum liaison to the Hunter College laboratory schools for gifted children (grades PK– 2). From 977– 984 she was a gifted education specialist in the Seattle Public Schools.
 
Dr. Subotnik is also director of the Center for Gifted Education Policy at the APA. The center's mission is to generate public awareness, advocacy, clinical applications, and cutting-edge research ideas that will enhance the achievement and performance of children and adolescents with special gifts and talents in all domains (including the academic disciplines, the performing arts, sports, and the professions).
 
Dr. Subotnik has been awarded grants from the McDonnell Foundation, the Institute for Education Sciences, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the American Psychological Foundation, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education Javits program, and the Spencer Foundation.
 
She is co-editor of Developing Giftedness and Talent Across the Life Span (with F. D. Horowitz and D. Matthews), Optimizing Student Success with the Other Three R's: Reasoning, Resilience and Responsibility (with R. J. Sternberg), The Scientific Basis of Educational Productivity (with H. Walberg), The International Handbook of Research on Giftedness and Talent (2nd Edition with F. Monks K. Heller, R. J. Sternberg), Remarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development (with K. Arnold and K. Noble), and Beyond Terman: Contemporary Longitudinal Studies of Giftedness and Talent (with K. Arnold). She is the first author of Genius Revisited: High IQ Children Grown Up (with L. Kassan, A. Wasser, and E. Summers).
 
Dr. Subotnik was the 2 2 recipient of the National Association for Gifted Children NAGC Distinguished Scholar award. She was also selected as a 2 9 American Educational Research Association Fellow.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: American Psychological Association
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1433807149
• ISBN 13: 9781433807145
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Éditeur: Thompson Bruce, Subotnik Rena F.
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• Personne responsable: non disponible