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Gifted Girls

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Gifted girls refer to female individuals who demonstrate exceptional intellectual, creative, or artistic abilities, often identified through standardized testing or performance assessments. This research area explores their unique educational needs, social dynamics, and psychological development, addressing the challenges and opportunities they face in various contexts.
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Gifted girls refer to female individuals who demonstrate exceptional intellectual, creative, or artistic abilities, often identified through standardized testing or performance assessments. This research area explores their unique educational needs, social dynamics, and psychological development, addressing the challenges and opportunities they face in various contexts.

Key research themes

1. How do teacher biases and identification practices affect gifted girl referrals to gifted education programs?

This research theme investigates the extent to which gender bias in teacher referrals impacts the identification and inclusion of gifted girls in gifted and talented programs. Since teacher nominations often form the initial gateway for gifted program entry, understanding gendered perceptions and referral criteria is crucial for equitable identification. This theme also considers behavioral characteristics and overexcitabilities that teachers may differentially recognize in gifted boys and girls, affecting referral patterns.

Key finding: The study found that teachers were significantly less likely to refer female students than identically described male students for gifted programs. Qualitative data revealed that teachers' perceptions and expectations were... Read more
Key finding: Female teachers were more adept at recognizing emotional, imaginational, and sensual overexcitabilities (OEs) in gifted adolescents compared to male teachers. Both genders recognized emotional OE as the most intense.... Read more
Key finding: Analysis of cohorts from 1982 to 2003 indicates that girls from larger families (4+ children) had higher acceptance rates to gifted programs than girls overall in those cohorts, with participation rates approximately 25%... Read more

2. What are the social and emotional challenges experienced by gifted girls, and how do these affect their academic and psychological development?

This theme focuses on the psychological, emotional, and social experiences of gifted girls, including bullying, covert aggression, social stigma, and identity development. It examines how gifted girls cope with relational aggression and the mismatch between their intellectual abilities and social-emotional needs. Understanding these challenges is essential to provide effective psychosocial support catered to gifted girls.

Key finding: Gifted adolescent girls reported a high prevalence of covert (relational) aggression, particularly during 7th grade. They experienced fewer such incidents with intellectual peers versus non-exceptional peers, indicating... Read more
Key finding: The study found that gifted students globally experience stigmatization due to being 'different,' leading to peer jealousy, social pressure, and sometimes rejection. Gifted girls often engage in coping strategies such as... Read more
Key finding: Research shows gifted girls face social-emotional issues such as perfectionism, indecision, and underachievement often linked to educational mismatch and peer pressure. While most gifted youth are well-adjusted, subgroup... Read more

3. How do race and intersectionality influence the identification and experiences of gifted Black girls in educational and STEM contexts?

This theme addresses the complex impact of intersecting identities—race, gender, and giftedness—on identification, educational opportunities, and STEM achievement for Black girls. It explores systemic underidentification, stereotypes, access inequities, and sociocultural factors limiting gifted Black girls' academic trajectories. This research is crucial for developing equitable policies and practices that recognize and nurture Black girls’ giftedness.

Key finding: Black girls receiving gifted instruction in early grades significantly outperformed their peers not in gifted programming in math and science achievement, with effect sizes larger than those for White girls. However, White... Read more
Key finding: The authors identify systemic barriers such as racialized tracking, underidentification in gifted programs, and socio-political marginalization that contribute to the chronic underrepresentation of gifted Black girls in STEM... Read more
Key finding: This paper highlights the compounded marginalization of twice-exceptional African American students who face disproportional identification challenges and restrictive educational placements. It calls attention to... Read more

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הורים רבים מקווים, שילדיהם יאותרו כמחוננים. אבל מה לגבי המתח והתחרותיות שמביא עמו גילוי כזה?  ומה עושים עם מחוננת שלא מוצאת את מרקומה?
בפרק זה יוצג תיאור המקרה של חדוה, נערה דתית מחוננת, שלה אחים מחוננים. חדוה מתגוררת באילת ולומדת באולפנא במקום מגוריה. מטרת הצגת מקרה זה היא להוסיף לספרות הקיימת בנושא מחוננים ולזרוע אור אודות מקומה של הבת המחוננת בכיתה רגילה, הטרוגנית עד... more
הבת המוכשרת נמצאת בסיכון להימצא בקונפליקט בין רצונותיה לבין רצונות החברה אליה היא שייכת, בין שאיפותיה לקידום מקצועי ואינטלקטואלי לבין מסרים מבולבלים, דו-משמעיים ואף סותרים הקשורים לקידומה המקצועי, מסרים שלא אחת מגיעים אף ממוריה (Kerr,... more
. This article describes the difficulties of gifted girls learning in Israel Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox school, and the problems of "being a gifted girls or adolescent" in an Israeli religious society. Religious girls are a minority... more
The finding about the access advantage girls from larger families had, regarding their acceptance rate to the Institute's activities, was quite surprising. Here are some results: In October 1982 38.3% of all new participants from 4+child... more
While considerable research exists on bullying in P-12 schools, few empirical studies address bullying and gifted students. Moreover, the field of Gifted, Talented, and Creative Education lacks single construct studies on covert... more
Since the Israeli Declaration of Independence 1948, Arab females were the main beneficiaries of the law of mandatory education. Arab women aged 65+ have, on average, less than one year of formal education. Their granddaughters, aged... more
BOOK DESCRIPTION. This book presents the reader with the main inherent problems of double-exceptionality, namely, the difficulties educators and mental health professionals must deal with when working with gied disabled children and... more
Prof. Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija is professor at the School of Education of Tel Aviv University, where she heads the Department of Curriculum Planning and Instruction and the Program for Research, Measurement and Evaluation Methods.... more
Research literature dealing with the issue of " who seeks help for gifted children and adolescents who have emotional psychological, educational and familial problem " is very meager. The main reasons for this situation are: a. Seeking... more
20/3/2016 תהיי חכמה ותשתקי מאת נורית רוט אף שבנות זוכות להעדפה מתקנת בשלב האיתור, בדיקת "מגזין כלכליסט" מעלה שהן נושרות יותר מבנים ברבים ממרכזי המחוננים שמפעיל משרד החינוך. הסיבה: הן נאלצות להתמודד עם שורה ארוכה של מכשולים ודעות קדומות... more
The term "special education" is used, in most cases, for the education of children with learning disabilities, emotional problems, behavioral difficulties, severe physical limitations, or difficulties related to low cognitive abilities.... more
Gifted children are a minority among their peers, and gifted girls are a minority among the gifted. Furthermore, as the level of giftedness increases, the rae of gifrls decreases. For example: about one third of the children with IQ=130... more
The field of gifted children with learning disabilities has been the focus of thousands of studies, parents’ and educators’ instructions, as well as university courses. Currently there are more than 44000 google scholar articles under:... more
ABSTRACT: In this article, it was examined Hanna David’s Book: The Gifted Arab Child in Israel. The book focuses on Arab gifted children living in Israel. In Israel three Arab groups are living: Muslim, Christian and Druze. This book... more
הבת המוכשרת נמצאת בסיכון להימצא בקונפליקט בין רצונותיה לבין רצונות החברה אליה היא שייכת, בין שאיפותיה לקידום מקצועי ואינטלקטואלי לבין מסרים מבולבלים, דו-משמעיים ואף סותרים הקשורים לקידומה המקצועי, מסרים שלא אחת מגיעים אף ממוריה (Kerr,... more
One of the main reasons for social and economic gender inequity in our society is closely connected to the unsatisfactory level of math and science that girls choose to learn while in high school Not learning enough mathematics, physics,... more
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