{"title":"School-Based Surveillance and the Disproportionate Representation of Students Who Are Black and Hispanic in Gifted Programs","authors":"Peyton Perduyn,Abdulrahman Alduhayyim,Susan Sanchez,Jaret Hodges","doi":"10.1177/00169862261478885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261478885","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149172497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Gifted Child Counseling: A Critique and a Proposal","authors":"Leslie Margolin","doi":"10.1177/00169862261487395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261487395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"167 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultivating Talented Innovators for the Future: General Creativity and Creative Problem Solving in Inclusive Classrooms","authors":"C. June Maker,A. Kadir Bahar","doi":"10.1177/00169862261481439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261481439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STEM Identity and Career Intentions: A Comparison of Gifted and Non-Identified First-Year College Students","authors":"Tugce Karatas, Nielsen Pereira","doi":"10.1177/00169862261484100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261484100","url":null,"abstract":"This quantitative cross-sectional study examined the relationships among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career intentions, STEM identity, and STEM identity components (i.e., STEM interest, performance/competence, and recognition) in a sample of 488 first-year college students. Using multigroup structural equation modeling, we tested whether the structural relationships among variables differed between students who had been formally identified as gifted during K–12 and those who had not. In the full sample, we found that STEM identity was a strong predictor of STEM career intentions. Performance/competence showed a significant positive indirect effect on STEM identity and career intentions through STEM recognition and interest. Recognition, or being seen as a STEM person by teachers, peers, or family, was the strongest predictor of STEM identity. No statistically significant differences were found between the gifted and non-identified groups. These findings highlight the importance of creating inclusive, identity-affirming STEM environments and providing early STEM talent development opportunities for all students.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primary Classroom Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Competence in Educating Gifted: A Scale Development Study","authors":"Osman Aktan, Mine Topçu","doi":"10.1177/00169862261478068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261478068","url":null,"abstract":"This descriptive study develops a scale measuring primary classroom teachers’ perceptions of their professional competence in educating gifted students. The scale development process followed systematic steps recommended in the literature. We conducted the study with four distinct groups. We interviewed 15 teachers and carried out a pilot study with 32 teachers. We collected exploratory factor analysis (EFA) data from 407 teachers and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) data from 401 teachers, resulting in a total sample of 855 classroom teachers. To evaluate construct validity, we conducted EFA and CFA. EFA yielded a four-factor structure with eigenvalues ranging from 1.127 to 8.353, explaining 53.15% of the total variance. We confirmed the scale’s construct validity through CFA and second-order CFA. We examined reliability using Cronbach’s alpha, McDonald’s omega, and composite reliability coefficients. We assessed item discrimination through item-total correlations and independent samples <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">t</jats:italic> -tests for the upper and lower 27% groups. Overall, the results indicate that the scale demonstrates high reliability and that the items exhibit strong discrimination.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148946851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overexcitability Reconsidered: Domestication of a Developmental Theory","authors":"Chris Wells","doi":"10.1177/00169862261480141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261480141","url":null,"abstract":"Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s concept of overexcitability (OE) describes amplified modes of experience and expression. It is part of his theory of positive disintegration, originally grounded in clinical work with people whose heightened sensitivity psychiatry often labeled pathological. When these amplified modes are joined with autonomous inner drives, they can transform suffering into personality growth. OE was introduced to gifted education by Michael M. Piechowski in 1979. Translated into an educational framework for understanding highly able children, it lost its clinical and developmental context over the decades that followed. This article traces what was lost: the role of suffering in growth, the connection to crisis, and the relevance to autistic, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other neurodivergent populations. It proposes a liberation framework situating OE as a transdiagnostic dimension of human neurodiversity, reshaping approaches to twice-exceptional identification and support.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148915450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhanar Muradillakyzy Akhmedova, Alandeom W. Oliveira, Nursultan Japashov, Aizhan Mansurova, Selim Jamil Tlili, Bagdat Makulbekuly Kossanov
{"title":"The Winner Takes It All? The Impact of Mathematics Olympiad Elimination on Kazakh High-Achieving Students’ Expectancy-Value Beliefs and Career Aspirations","authors":"Zhanar Muradillakyzy Akhmedova, Alandeom W. Oliveira, Nursultan Japashov, Aizhan Mansurova, Selim Jamil Tlili, Bagdat Makulbekuly Kossanov","doi":"10.1177/00169862261478502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261478502","url":null,"abstract":"Mathematics Olympiads play an important role in developing mathematically gifted students, yet little research has examined how participants interpret the experience of elimination from these highly selective competitions. This qualitative study investigates how mathematically high-achieving students interpret early elimination and how these experiences shape students’ motivation and career aspirations. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten Olympiad participants and four coaches in Kazakhstan. Data were analyzed using constellation mapping, which visually represented relationships among themes emerging from participants’ narratives. Findings reveal three interconnected domains shaping students’ responses to elimination: expectancy-value dynamics, career aspiration trajectories, and support structures that sustain motivation. While some students experienced elimination as a threat to academic identity, others reframed it as an opportunity for growth or redirected their interests toward adjacent Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) pathways. Such findings highlight the importance of mentoring, social belonging, and competition design in supporting resilience among mathematically talented students navigating competitive talent-development systems.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148909161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Giftedness Synergistic With Sustainable Happiness? An Emotional Wellness Model of Talent Development","authors":"Jesus Alfonso D. Datu","doi":"10.1177/00169862261475140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261475140","url":null,"abstract":"Scientists, practitioners, and policymakers have long debated the non-cognitive and socio-emotional aspects of intellectual giftedness. Are gifted individuals more likely than their less gifted counterparts to have a high level of well-being? How has well-being been defined in early and contemporary investigations involving gifted children, adolescents, and adults? What resources and interventions promote the well-being of gifted individuals? In this narrative review, the aforementioned questions are addressed by integrating available theoretical perspectives on gifted education, human development, and the well-being experiences and resources of gifted individuals. Guided by previous findings and theories on talent development and positive psychology, this article proposes an emotional wellness model of talent development. Future theoretical and research implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Sources of Psychological Well-Being Among Gifted Students: A Qualitative Study in Saudi Schools","authors":"Khalid Abdu M. Al-Makhalid","doi":"10.1177/00169862261473598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261473598","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored how gifted male students in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia experience and interpret psychological well-being within their cultural and educational environments. Semistructured interviews were conducted in Arabic to ensure linguistic and cultural appropriateness, and the data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s thematic approach, informed by Ryff’s eudaimonic framework. Three overarching themes emerged: relational and culturally grounded sources of support, emotional self-awareness and coping processes, and environmental and institutional influences on well-being. Family cohesion and parental encouragement emerged as central sources of emotional security, while intrinsic motivation and selective peer relationships supported students’ sense of competence, belonging, and personal growth. Participants also described using reflection, positive self-talk, prayer, and Qur’anic recitation to manage stress and maintain emotional balance. Supportive school climates, responsive teachers, and access to enrichment or counseling services further contributed to students’ well-being. The findings show how dimensions of Ryff’s model were expressed within a collectivist and faith-informed context, particularly through relational forms of autonomy, spiritually grounded meaning-making, and culturally shaped emotional regulation. The study highlights the importance of culturally responsive socioemotional support in gifted education within non-Western contexts.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"490 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Be Young, Creative, and Black: A Quantitative Exploration of Teachers’ Racial Implicit Bias and Perceptions of Creativity","authors":"Corey J. Gray","doi":"10.1177/00169862261472441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261472441","url":null,"abstract":"This quantitative study examined whether teachers’ racial implicit bias relates to their perceptions of student creativity. It was hypothesized that lower levels of implicit bias would be associated with a higher desirability of creative characteristics and stronger self-reported personal creativity. Participants ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n</jats:italic> = 173) completed the Race Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Teacher Perceptions of Student Characteristics Survey. Data were analyzed using analyses of variance (ANOVA) and descriptive statistics to explore relationships between automatic preferences and perceptions of creativity. Results revealed a statistically significant difference in the desirability of creative traits based on bias levels: educators with minimal automatic preferences rated creative characteristics as most desirable, while those with strong pro-White bias rated them lowest. No significant relationship was found for non-creative traits or personal creativity. Findings suggest that addressing implicit bias is essential for equitable creativity identification and professional learning in gifted education.","PeriodicalId":47514,"journal":{"name":"Gifted Child Quarterly","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}