| Title: |
A Cross-National Comparison of School Students' Perceptions Regarding High Performing Peers |
| Authors: |
Hyerim Oh; Margaret Sutherland; Niamh Stack; Maria del Mar Badia; Sheyla Blumen; Anh-Thu Nguyen Quoc; Catherine Wormald; Julie Maakrun; Barbara Baier; Martha Schmidt; Albert Ziegler |
| Source: |
Turkish Journal of Giftedness and Education, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 10-23 (2014) |
| Publisher Information: |
Turkish Journal of Giftedness and Education |
| Publication Year: |
2014 |
| Collection: |
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| Subject Terms: |
High achieving students; peer per-ceptions and expectations; cross-national com-parisons; Special aspects of education; LC8-6691 |
| Description: |
This cross-national scenario based study exam-ined fourth-grade students’ perceptions of high-performing classmates in terms of their ex-pected intellectual abilities, positive social qual-ities and popularity among their peers across seven countries. The overall results show that high academic achievements predominantly lead to positive expectations within the peer group. However, pronounced differences were found between the countries. The results indi-cated that students from Spanish-speaking countries viewed their potential high-perform-ing peers most favorably, followed by students from Australia, the United Kingdom and Ger-many. The least favorable expectations, but by no means negative attitude, were exhibited by students from the two East-Asian countries Ko-rea and Vietnam. In contrast, the respondents’ gender and the gender of the hypothetical suc-cessful classmates had less influence on student perceptions of high-performers. These findings have implications for the educational provision of high performing students in different cross-national contexts. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English; Turkish |
| Relation: |
http://www.tuzed.org/publications/cilt4/2014_4_1/2014_4_1_Oh&others.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/2146-3832; https://doaj.org/article/29dfdcee98f54af28b47f73e36769c8f |
| Availability: |
https://doaj.org/article/29dfdcee98f54af28b47f73e36769c8f |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.C6974311 |
| Database: |
BASE |