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Perceptions of a Self-Contained Cass for Fourth and Fith-Grade Students With High to Extreme Levels of Intellectual Giftedness

Sidney M. Moon

Purdue University

Melanie Swift

West Lafayette School Corporation

Ann Shallenberger

Wabash Valley Hospital

This qualitative case study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of a new self-contained classroom with curriculum that was differentiated for highly intellectually gifted students. The special class was investigated throughout its first year of operation in a school district. Participating students were fourth and fifth graders with IQ scores on the Slosson Intelligence Test Revised ranging from 148 to 193. Data were collected using observations, interviews, comparison essays, and a goal-attainment scale.Qualitative data were analyzed using the techniques of open, axial, and selective coding, data displays, and peer debriefing; quantitative data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. The results suggested that the self-contained classroom provided a challenging learning environment for highly intellectually gifted students, but that the responses of individual students to this more challenging environment varied considerably, creating different emotional and social outcomes fo-r specific students at different times during the school year. The results suggest that gifted and talented programming can have differential effects on individual students and that future program evaluation research should attempt to investigate the etiology of these differential effects.

Gifted Child Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, 64-79 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/001698620204600106
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