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Yoon, Jiyoon; Kim, Kyoung Jin; Koo, Katie – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
This study was to design and explore the effects of an enrichment program on the leadership, attitude, and motivation of ethnic minority gifted and talented students who want to be scientists and engineers in the future. Ten gifted and talented students participated in this study, Youth Science and Technology Leadership Camp (YSTLC). A leadership…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Minority Group Students, Academically Gifted, Science Education
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Bass, Lisa R. – Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The author discusses the boarding school model as a schooling alternative to improve life chances for disadvantaged youth, particularly African American youth, by positively meeting their social and educational needs. Bourdieu, Coleman, and other social scientists purported that these needs can be better met by exposing students to social and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Boarding Schools, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
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Fredricks, Jennifer A.; Alfeld, Corinne; Eccles, Jacquelynne – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore how passion was manifested among gifted and talent youth selected from a larger longitudinal study of child and adolescent development. The gifted sample included 25 high school and college students who were selected because they were in a gifted program in elementary school. The talent sample included 41…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Academically Gifted, Talent, Classrooms