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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
Mehta, Sona; Henderson, Bob – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1996
Concept mapping, a student-driven assessment tool, is used to compare student attitudes toward conventional school and the Community Environmental Leadership Programme (CELP), an integrated outdoor semester for 11th graders that develops community skills, environmental awareness, leadership, and responsibility. Although pre-CELP concept maps…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries