Educating the gifted student: Eagerness to achieve as a curricular competence

 María-Luisa García-Guardia, Madrid (Spain)

 Raquel Ayestarán-Crespo, Madrid (Spain)

 Josefa-Elisa López-Gómez, Madrid (Spain)

 Mónica Tovar-Vicente, Madrid (Spain)

https://doi.org/10.3916/C60-2019-02

Keywords

Quantitative research, gifted students, secondary education, curricular adaptation, competence, talent, abilities, personalized learning

Abstract

During the last decades, high intellectual abilities have been revealed as a decisive curricular factor that evidences the need to adapt content to students' characteristics. In Spain, various autonomous communities have designed programs that, through extraordinary activities, seek to respond to this demand and provide talented students with the appropriate context for the development and strengthening of their skills. In the case of Madrid, this proposal includes private involvement of an entrepreneurial nature that has demonstrated the possible connection between the two environments when considering the labor asset, fundamentally oriented to the resolution of projects by adolescent subjects with above average cognitive capacities. This research has examined, by means of a 180º questionnaire completed by 342 subjects (comprised of parents and skilled children, teachers and classmates) in seven Madrid schools, the possibility of identifying the ‘eagerness to achieve’ competence, considering that its early distinction enables its development in educational contexts and the training of students in order to promote individuals who focus their professional work towards the completion of assigned activities. The results obtained have also made it possible to draw up a generic profile of the talented student by combining his or her own assessments and those of his or her environment, and to recognize their most highly valued inherent aptitudes as well as those least valued.

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Fundref

This research is the result of the R+D+i Project ‘Digital Citizenship’ (CSO2012-30756O2011-28099) and the Innovation and Teaching Quality Improvement Project ‘Production of audiovisual contents and video apps for blended and online learning: students as creators of open educational resources for virtual campuses and open MOOC’ (Complutense University of Madrid).

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Received: 27-12-2018

Revised: 13-02-2019

Accepted: 20-02-2019

OnlineFirst: 15-05-2019

Publication date: 01-07-2019

Article revision time: 48 days | Average time revision issue 60: 48 days

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