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Nikel, Lukasz – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
The present study explored the occupational aspirations of school-age children (N = 394) comparing differences by gender, level of intelligence and grade level. Results indicated that girls' aspirations were more realistic, intrinsically motivated, prosocial and inclusive of higher education than those of boys. Moreover, a higher level of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Occupational Aspiration, Gender Differences, Intelligence Differences
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Steve Graham; Stephen Ciullo; Alyson Collins – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Seventy-five general and 65 special education teachers working in the same 65 elementary schools in 12 different U.S. school districts were surveyed about their mindsets concerning the malleability of writing and intelligence as well as their practices for teaching writing. All teachers taught writing to one or more fourth-grade students receiving…
Descriptors: Regular and Special Education Relationship, Elementary School Teachers, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition)
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Akin, Charlotte A. – Gifted Child Today, 2005
Social, physical, emotional, and cognitive developmental rates for gifted children do not correspond to each other and--except for physical development--do not necessarily correspond to age peer norms. Giftedness itself causes asynchrony; that is, it causes children to be out of sync with other components. In the classroom, the teacher is…
Descriptors: Self Contained Classrooms, Gifted, Content Area Reading, Intelligence Differences
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Tirri, Kirsi; Tallent-Runnels, Mary K.; Nokelainen, Petri – British Journal of Religious Education, 2005
This study investigated differences across four countries in the amount and nature of above-average ability and average-ability pre-adolescents' everyday life, scientific, moral, spiritual and religious questions. The participants (N = 975) of this study were fifth-and sixth-grade elementary school students from different schools in Finland (N =…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Preadolescents