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Garrett, Lynda; Moltzen, Roger – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
The study reported on here sought to better understand the development of writing talent from the perspectives of a group of gifted adolescent female writers. Recent shifts in how giftedness and talent are conceptualized has led to an increased focus on domain-specific abilities and the importance of understanding how specific talents can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Adolescents, Females
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Marcoulides, George A.; Gottfried, Adele Eskeles; Gottfried, Allen W.; Oliver, Pamella H. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
A longitudinal modeling approach was utilized to determine the existence of latent classes with regard to academic intrinsic motivation and the points of stability and transition of individuals between and within classes. A special type of latent Markov Chain model using "Mplus" was fit to data from the Fullerton Longitudinal Study, with…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Self Motivation, Children, Student Motivation