Highly Talented and "Only" an Apprentice? Selected Results of a Longitudinal Study and Its Consequences for Vocational Research of the Highly-Gifted

Autor/in	Stamm, Margrit
Titel	Highly Talented and "Only" an Apprentice? Selected Results of a Longitudinal Study and Its Consequences for Vocational Research of the Highly-Gifted
Quelle	In: Education + Training, 47 (2005) 1, S.53-63 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-0912
Schlagwörter	Program Effectiveness; Students; Educational Background; Cognitive Ability; Adult Vocational Education; Gifted + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Vorbildung; Denkfähigkeit; Begabter, Hoch Begabter
Abstract	Purpose - Aims to present the empirical results from a study of vocational research on the highly gifted pupils. Design/methodology/approach - Based on data from a Swiss longitudinal study on the effects of acquiring pre-school knowledge of reading and mathematics, intellectually above-average gifted pupils, who are now 16-year-olds, are filtered out and analysed with respect to their educational background and plans for the future. Findings - The most striking findings of the analysis are that those with well above-average ability are to be found in all educational examination standards their educational careers may be characterised by notable breaks, yet still be highly successful and a significant number of pupils decide against completing a high-school certificate A-level equivalent in favour of vocational training. Research limitations/implications - A limitation on the authority of the results arises in two respects with regard to the small size of the sample group and in terms of the fact that the link between performance development, cognitive ability and the actual performance demonstrated cannot be ascertained from the available data. Practical implications - Consequently, vocational training must also increasingly recognise the possibility of having to train a potentially significant number of apprentices with above-average abilities in the most varied of domains. Originality/value - This is an area that, to date, has not been the subject of much empirical investigation. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10