Achievement of gifted adolescents in Singapore : the effects of perception, creative-thinking ability and an intervention programme "knowledge/volition/action"

• Main Author: Teo, Chua Tee.
• Other Authors: Quah, Marilyn May Ling
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Theory and practice of education
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20387
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study hypothesizes that intellectually gifted adolescents in the Gifted Education Programme who had greater preferences for perception and creative-thinking would tend to perform less well academically owing to a lack of volition, and that an educational intervention encompassing self-knowledge...