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Download full textTolppanen, Sakari; Tirri, Kirsi – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2014
This study investigated the expectations of gifted students for a science enrichment summer program held in Finland in 2011 and how these expectations were met. The students' expectations were studied by analyzing the answers of 1,935 camp applicants. Altogether, 4,348 expectations were identified through content analysis. The data showed that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrichment Activities, Academically Gifted, Summer Programs
Direct linkNokelainen, Petri; Tirri, Kirsi; Campbell, James Reed; Walberg, Herbert – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
In the 1940s, Lewis Terman (1954a, 1954b) studied "life success" of 730 gifted men at the midpoint of their careers and found that success is associated with stability and absence of disturbing conflicts. In this article, we use retrospective data (N = 624) from the academic Olympians in 3 countries (USA, Germany, and Finland) to study…
Descriptors: Motivation, Foreign Countries, Talent, Productivity
Tirri, Kirsi – 2000
This study examined the development of empathy and role-taking skills in 194 Finnish students in Grades 6 and 9. Students wrote a story about a moral conflict in their school involving themselves or their friends. Story content and theme were analyzed and compared across age groups. Findings indicated that the themes of conflicts could be…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Early Adolescents
