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Doll, Marianne Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
During the last two decades of the twentieth century, some researchers and practitioners in gifted education adopted the belief that overexcitabilities (OEs), from Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration, are more prevalent in gifted adolescents that in other adolescents. This belief led to recommendations for gifted education, including the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
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Pahnke, Johan; Lundgren, Tobias; Hursti, Timo; Hirvikoski, Tatja – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by social impairments and behavioural inflexibility. In this pilot study, the feasibility and outcomes of a 6-week acceptance and commitment therapy-based skills training group were evaluated in a special school setting using a quasi-experimental design (acceptance and commitment therapy/school classes as…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Quasiexperimental Design, Program Effectiveness
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Carroll, Annemaree; Houghton, Stephen; Taylor, Myra; West, John; List-Kerz, Michelle – Educational Psychology, 2006
The present research describes the development and pilot testing of a new instrument, the Responses to Interpersonal and Physically Provoking Situations Schedule (RIPPS), designed to measure the reactivity of students with and without attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) in the naturalistic setting of the classroom. For this study, 29…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Behavior