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NCRGE is a collaborative effort of the University of Connecticut, University of Virginia, Florida State University, and University of California- Berkeley. E.

With funding authorized through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act, the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) has awarded funding for the National Center for Research on Gifted Education (http://ncrge.uconn.edu). Former NAGC President, Del Siegle, is the principal investigator and will serve as director of the newly funded center. Jean Gubbins serves as associate dire

ctor. The new Center will be housed at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. The University of Virginia, University of California – Berkeley, and Florida State University are partner institutions. Additional co-principal investigators on the UConn team include D. Betsy McCoach, Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Christopher Rhoads, and Jonathan Plucker. Carolyn Callahan, Frank Worrell, and Yaacov Petscher serve as Co-PI at the partner institutions. Catherine Little and Joseph Renzulli serve as co-investigators at UConn. “We have an ambitious research agenda,” Siegle noted, “which is made possible by this talented team of gifted education and research design specialists who wrote an innovative proposal second to none.”

The Center will examine the extent of gifted programming and student participation in three states (Colorado, Florida, and North Carolina); identify districts and schools that show high achievement growth rates among gifted students, including those from underserved groups; and explore how these sites successfully identify, serve, and retain students from underrepresented groups in gifted programs.

04/18/2019

Survey finds most gifted education curriculum emphasize developing "creativity" and "critical thinking" instead of acceleration above grade level

04/05/2019

Dr. Rashea Hamilton presented today at on behalf of the NCRGE team.

03/06/2019

Interested in reading NCRGE publications? Visit our webpage!

Exploratory Study on the Identification of English Learners for Gifted and Talented Programs 2018 Publication of the National Center for Research on Gifted Education E. Jean Gubbins, Del Siegle, Rashea Hamilton, Pamela Peters, Ashley Y. Carpenter, Patricia O'Rourke, Jeb Puryear, D. Betsy Mc ...

02/15/2019

Five years ago, the lack of diversification in the gifted and talented program in Mankato Area Public Schools reflected a nationwide problem.

10/10/2018

Check out this recent EdWeek article featuring NCRGE's EL study!

Researchers from the National Center for Research on Gifted Education visited elementary and middle schools in three states to study schools that had "exemplary" track records in spotting academically talented ELLs. Nationally, only 2 percent of English-learners are enrolled in gifted and talented p...

09/13/2018

Interested in working with NCRGE? We are seeking a qualitative researcher for a Post Doctoral Research Associate position. Learn more at https://www.jobs.uconn.edu, or email [email protected] if you have questions. Review of applications begins immediately!

06/25/2018

Now available: 15 Tips for Improving Identification of Gifted EL Students. Get the one-page PDF or tri-fold brochure, or download the full NCRGE EL Report and comprehensive literature review!

Adopt Universal Screening Procedures 1. Adopt a policy of universal screening of all students in one or more grade levels for the identification pro...

04/15/2018

Dr. Betsy McCoach sharing some of the current NCRGE research at AERA.

04/02/2018

Del Siegle was interviewed about how the NCRGE research relates to this issue. Check it out.

Nearly one of every two students in Grandview Heights schools has been identified as gifted — either overall or in a subject area —

03/26/2018

Check out a recent radio appearance by Dr. Betsy McCoach in which she discusses some of the NCRGE team's recent work showing that students in poverty are less likely to be identified gifted.

03/22/2018

A paper on the recognition of giftedness by UConn Neag School of Education researchers is quoted by Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which found that school poverty has a negative relationship with the percentage of students identified as gifted.
https://edexcellence.net/articles/more-evidence-that-poverty-obscures-schools-recognition-of-giftedness

02/27/2018

NCRGE researchers have published the first study to demonstrate a link between student poverty, institutional poverty, and the lower identification rate of gifted low-income students.

The study, “Disentangling the Roles of Institutional and Individual Poverty in the Identification of Gifted Students,” was published in the journal Gifted Child Quarterly. Researchers found that students eligible for free or reduced lunch programs are less likely to be identified for gifted education services even after controlling for prior math and reading achievement scores. In addition, the findings indicated that students in low-income schools have a further reduced possibility of being identified for gifted services.

Although the relationships between family income and student identification for gifted programming are well documented, less is known about how school and distr...

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