TY - JOUR
T1 - A cross-cultural study of possible iatrogenic effects of gifted education programs: tenth graders’ perceptions of academically high performing classmates
AU - Oh, Hyerim
AU - Sutherland, Margaret
AU - Stack, Niamh
AU - Badia Martín, Maria del Mar
AU - Blumen, Sheyla
AU - Nguyen, Quoc Anh Thu
AU - Wormald, Catherine
AU - Maakrun, Julie
AU - Ziegler, Albert
N1 - Funding Information:
aChair for Educational Psychology and Research on Excellence, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany; bSchool of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; cSchool of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; dDepartment of Basic, Development and Educational Psychology, University Autonomous of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; eDepartment of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru; fSchool of Education, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia; gSchool of Education, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 European Council for High Ability.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - Previous empirical studies have yielded inconclusive results about peer perceptions of academically high performing students. The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceptions of the intellectual ability, positive social qualities, and popularity of a hypothetical new high performing classmate. Participants were 1060 Vietnamese, South Korean, British, Australian, Peruvian, and Spanish boys and girls in 10th grade. The results revealed that the perceptions of academically high performing classmates differed by country group. Positive perceptions of intellectual ability and social qualities were commonly found in all countries except the two Asian countries (Vietnam and South Korea), where the students reported more neutral views of high performers. In conclusion, it is argued that there is no evidence for possible iatrogenic effects of gifted education programs aiming at high achievements
AB - Previous empirical studies have yielded inconclusive results about peer perceptions of academically high performing students. The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceptions of the intellectual ability, positive social qualities, and popularity of a hypothetical new high performing classmate. Participants were 1060 Vietnamese, South Korean, British, Australian, Peruvian, and Spanish boys and girls in 10th grade. The results revealed that the perceptions of academically high performing classmates differed by country group. Positive perceptions of intellectual ability and social qualities were commonly found in all countries except the two Asian countries (Vietnam and South Korea), where the students reported more neutral views of high performers. In conclusion, it is argued that there is no evidence for possible iatrogenic effects of gifted education programs aiming at high achievements
KW - cross-cultural study
KW - high performer
KW - iatrogenesis
KW - intellectual ability
KW - peer perceptions
KW - popularity
KW - social qualities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84938950474&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13598139.2015.1044080
DO - 10.1080/13598139.2015.1044080
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-8139
VL - 26
SP - 152
EP - 166
JO - High Ability Studies
JF - High Ability Studies
IS - 1
ER -