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Jung, Jae Yup; Young, Marie – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
A mixed-methods design was employed to identify the cognitive processes that lead to occupational/career indecision for economically disadvantaged adolescents of high intellectual ability. In the first phase, interview data collected from 26 economically disadvantaged intellectually gifted Australian adolescents were analyzed using grounded theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, High School Students, Occupational Aspiration
Dare, Lynn; Nowicki, Elizabeth – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
Research shows that carefully planned acceleration offers academic benefits with little social or emotional risk to high-ability learners. However, acceleration is underutilized and little is known about students' motivations to accelerate. In this study, 21 high-ability high school students in Grades 11 and 12 took part in a structured…
Descriptors: Gifted, High Achievement, High School Students, Grade 11