과학영재교육원 효과성에 관한 진단과 분석

초록

Is gifted education effective? It is both an important and sensitive question. It is almost ten years that gifted education centers affiliated with universities have been managed to educate gifted learners in Korea. However, there has been so little effort to evaluate the effectiveness of those gifted education programs and so little evidence that gifted education is effective or not. How and in what aspects gifted learners are differentiated or improved through the gifted education programs? The present study is initiated from these questions. To diagnose and analyse comprehensively the effectiveness of gifted education program at the gifted education centers affiliated with universities, the study carried out following four subordinate studies: 1) a survey of students, professors, and graduates of 22 gifted education centers nationwide; 2) a quasi experimental study to compare the gifted education center students and the potentially gifted students without any gifted education services both in short and long term base; 3) an analysis of career of the graduates of gifted education center through the follow up study. To show the comprehensive perspective on the effectiveness of the gifted education programs, the present study is composed of the short main results of the each study on the above rather than to describe the overall results of each study in detail and in separate.

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