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The role of mentors in the lives of national merit scholars
(1985)
This study was conducted to determine whether a correlational relationship exists between a measure of independence/autonomy and use of mentors for academically gifted students. The subjects were 418 National Merit Scholars ...
Creativity, personality, and family variables in gifted children, their parents, and siblings
(1985)
The process of creativity is difficult to define or measure. Many home and family variables have been examined in an effort to add to our creativity information cache. This research looked at the dimension of parental-si ...
Physical attractiveness, sex, ethnicity, teacher expectancy, student ability, and language grouping impact on school behavioral and academic outcomes
(1985)
The primary purpose of this study was to add to the descriptive data on Hispanic students and investigate the relationship among naturally occurring student characteristics (physical attractiveness, sex, ethnicity) and ...
Perceptions of in-service teachers and pre-service teachers toward obese and normal-weight children
(1985)
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in perceptions held by in-service and preservice teachers toward obese and normal-weight children. Judgments were made about selected personality characteristics of ...