@article{GronostajWernerBochowetal.2016, author = {Gronostaj, Anna and Werner, Elise and Bochow, Eric and Vock, Miriam}, title = {Gifted Grade-Skippers in Germany}, series = {The gifted child quarterly}, volume = {60}, journal = {The gifted child quarterly}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {Thousand Oaks}, issn = {0016-9862}, doi = {10.1177/0016986215609999}, pages = {31 -- 46}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Skipping a grade, one specific form of acceleration, is an intervention used for gifted students. Quantitative research has shown acceleration to be a highly successful intervention regarding academic achievement, but less is known about the social-emotional outcomes of grade-skipping. In the present study, the authors used the grounded theory approach to examine the experiences of seven gifted students aged 8 to 16 years who skipped a grade. The interviewees perceived their "feeling of being in the wrong place" before the grade-skipping as strongly influenced by their teachers, who generally did not respond adequately to their needs. We observed a close interrelationship between the gifted students' intellectual fit and their social situation in class. Findings showed that the grade-skipping in most of the cases bettered the situation in school intellectually as well as socially, but soon further interventions, for instance, a specialized and demanding class- or subject-specific acceleration were added to provide sufficiently challenging learning opportunities.}, language = {en} } @misc{GronostajWernerBochowetal.2016, author = {Gronostaj, Anna and Werner, Elise and Bochow, Eric and Vock, Miriam}, title = {How to learn things at school you don't already know}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {415}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405211}, pages = {16}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Skipping a grade, one specific form of acceleration, is an intervention used for gifted students. Quantitative research has shown acceleration to be a highly successful intervention regarding academic achievement, but less is known about the social-emotional outcomes of grade-skipping. In the present study, the authors used the grounded theory approach to examine the experiences of seven gifted students aged 8 to 16 years who skipped a grade. The interviewees perceived their feeling of being in the wrong place before the grade-skipping as strongly influenced by their teachers, who generally did not respond adequately to their needs. We observed a close interrelationship between the gifted students' intellectual fit and their social situation in class. Findings showed that the grade-skipping in most of the cases bettered the situation in school intellectually as well as socially, but soon further interventions, for instance, a specialized and demanding class- or subject-specific acceleration were added to provide sufficiently challenging learning opportunities.}, language = {en} }