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Gomez Arizaga, Maria P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The popular belief that has been held for many years has been that students who have been identified as gifted would succeed academically in college because of their previous success in high school. However, in countries with a disadvantaged and unequal school system, one that is stratified according to groups' socioeconomic status, such as Chile,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, College Students, Academic Persistence
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Gómez-Arízaga, María P.; Conejeros-Solar, M. Leonor – High Ability Studies, 2013
The experiences of gifted students at the postsecondary level have not been studied widely. The goal of the present study was to explore and describe gifted students' perceptions of their first year after high school regarding experiences of success and failure. Two focus groups were conducted with 12 students (8 males, 4 females) from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Higher Education, Student Attitudes