scholarly journals Successful intelligence and giftedness: an empirical study

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 672
Author(s):  
Mercedes Ferrando ◽  
Carmen Ferrándiz ◽  
Laura Llor ◽  
Marta Sainz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Q Factor ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Successful Intelligence ◽  
Creative Talent

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The aim of our research is to look into the diversity withing gifted and tanlented students. This is important to better undertand their complexity and thus offer a more apropiate educational programs. There are rather few empirical works which attempt to identify high abilities profiles (giftedness and talent) that actually exist beyond the theoretical level. The present work intends to single out the different patterns or profiles resulting from the combination of the successful intelligence abilities (analytical, synthetic and practical), as defined by Stenberg. A total of 431 students from the Region of Murcia participated in this study. These students performed the Aurora Battery tasks (Chart, Grigorenko, &amp; Sternberg, 2008), designed to measure the analytical, practical and creative intelligence. Analytically gifted students (n=27), practically gifted (n=33) and creatively gifted (n= 34) were identifyed, taking as criteria scores equal to or higher than 120 IQ on each intelligence. Different Q-factor analyses were carried out for the three groups of students, in such a way that students were grouped according to their similarities. A total of 10 profiles  showing how successful intelligence abilities are combined were obtained, something that has made possible to support the theory put forward by Sternberg (2000): the analytical, practical and creative talent profiles, as well as the resulting combinations, the analytical-practical, analytical-creative, practical-creative profiles, along with the consummate balance talent (high performance in the three types of intelligence).</span></p>

The Metacognitive Component of Academic Self-Concept: The Development of a Triarchic Self-Scale

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Mandelman ◽  
Mei Tan ◽  
Sergey A. Kornilov ◽  
Robert J. Sternberg ◽  
Elena L. Grigorenko
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Q Factor ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Successful Intelligence ◽  
Source Of Information

Self-concept—more specifically academic self-concept—and its connection to academic achievement have long been studied. It has been widely accepted that one’s self-concept is formed through interaction with one’s environment and significant others. Here we suggest that an internal metacognitive component of self-concept is also critical to its development. This hypothesis is investigated here by the development of a metacognitive-academic self-concept scale as part of a larger battery based on Sternberg’s triarchic model of successful intelligence. The academic self-concept scale’s psychometric properties, with respect to both children and adults, and its correlations with a group-administered cognitive assessment are presented. Additionally, a series of Q-factor analyses of the results on the scale are provided, revealing multiple distinguishable academic self-concept profiles. Collectively, these data suggest that a self-concept scale regarding one’s abilities can provide an additional source of information for the cognitive profiles of students.

scholarly journals Incorporating Customer Service Expectations In The Restaurant Industry: The Guide To Survival

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 931
Author(s):  
M.C. Cant ◽  
C. Erdis
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Restaurant Industry ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Service Expectations

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoBodyTextIndent"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">With the remarkable growth and economic contributions of the services industry, companies are finding that they need to focus on service to keep up with rising customer expectations and to compete effectively. Thus excellent customer service in a restaurant has the potential of differentiating the restaurant from competing ones and could lead to creating a competitive advantage. Thus, if a restaurant becomes well known for its superior customer service, this can be used as a way of outmanoeuvring competing restaurants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This article examines customer service in selected restaurants in the Tshwane area. It is aimed at establishing criteria for excellent customer service in restaurants, which can serve as the basis for building good relationships with customers. An empirical study was conducted to namely to investigate customer service in selected restaurants in the Tshwane Area, with the aim to establish criteria for excellent customer service as a benchmark for establishing relationships with customers, by means of an exploratory study. A self-administered survey was conducted whereby questionnaires were handed to restaurant patrons with the restaurant bill folder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on the research results, criteria were developed for excellent customer service which can be used as a benchmark for establishing relationships with customers, by providing customer satisfaction, which leads to customer retention, loyalty and ultimately profitability for an organisation.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

scholarly journals Evaluating the Predominant Attitudes of Teachers and Principals Towards Educational Programs for Gifted Students in Elementary Schools: تقييم المواقف السائدة من المعلمين ومديري المدارس نحو البرامج التعليمية للطلاب الموهوبين في المدارس الابتدائية

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (45) ◽  
pp. 121-103
Author(s):  
Yahya Ali Hamdi Yahya Ali Hamdi
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Talented People ◽  
Current Systematic Review

The current systematic review of the literature (SLR) is divided into different sections starting with the introduction section. That being said, there is a discussion section that broadly evaluates different topics in addition to the summary findings that emerge from the study by discussion, there are mixed results about teachers' prevailing attitudes toward gifted students, and there are programs developed in order to promote the special needs of gifted children that teachers and school administrators are aware of. The study methodology depends on conducting tests and examining opinions about the subject and the guidance that it applied, and concluded that the gifted show distinctive qualities that differ from other students, and therefore they need special intervention programs to achieve the best educational results, and there are some school principals and talented people who support the programs that It aims to help the gifted, and there are others who do not support these programs, and various governments support programs that help Gifted students in the educational process and dealing with them in a way that supports their talents, and there are recommendations that were deduced from the study, which is that attention should be paid to identifying gifted students in educational institutions to work on their involvement in educational programs for the gifted, especially in primary schools, and there must be a positive response towards gifted education programs by Teachers and school administrators, work to develop these programs.

scholarly journals A High Q-Factor Outer-Frame-Anchor Gyroscope Operating at First Resonant Mode

Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1071
Author(s):  
Bo Jiang ◽  
Yan Su ◽  
Guowen Liu ◽  
Lemin Zhang ◽  
Fumin Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Microelectromechanical Systems ◽  
Resonant Mode ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Silicon On Insulator ◽  
Q Factor ◽  
Wafer Level ◽  
High Q ◽  
Ring Structures ◽  
Static Performance

Disc gyroscope manufactured through microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication processes becomes one of the most critical solutions for achieving high performance. Some reported novel disc constructions acquire good performance in bias instability, scale factor nonlinearity, etc. However, antivibration characteristics are also important for the devices, especially in engineering applications. For multi-ring structures with central anchors, the out-of-plane motions are in the first few modes, easily excited within the vibration environment. The paper presents a multi-ring gyro with good dynamic characteristics, operating at the first resonant mode. The design helps obtain better static performance and antivibration characteristics with anchor points outside of the multi-ring resonator. According to harmonic experiments, the nearest interference mode is located at 30,311 Hz, whose frequency difference is 72.8% far away from working modes. The structures were fabricated with silicon on insulator (SOI) processes and wafer-level vacuum packaging, where the asymmetry is 780 ppm as the frequency splits. The gyro also obtains a high Q-factor. The measured value at 0.15 Pa was 162 k, which makes the structure have sizeable mechanical sensitivity and low noise.

scholarly journals How Strategic Conformity Interacts with Innovation: An Empirical Study on Korean Manufacturing Firms from the Perspective of Optimal Distinctiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Myung Sub Lim ◽  
Choo Yeon Kim ◽  
Jae Wook Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
High Status ◽  
New Institutional Theory ◽  
High Volatility ◽  
Optimal Distinctiveness

Whether to have a similar or different strategy than firms in same industry is the fundamental question for firms that want to build a competitive advantage. Recent literature, such as the new institutional theory and the perspective of optimal distinctiveness, has emphasized the configuration of competing forces that make firms simultaneously similar by conforming to industry norms and different by implementing innovation, leading to high performance. The primary rationale is that firms can exploit their high status of conformity as a stock of capital to differentiate themselves when required. Upon this rationale, we conducted research to test the hypotheses for optimal distinctiveness in the strategies of manufacturing firms in Korea. The results show that Korean firms have higher performance when they are mutually involved in higher conformity and innovation. It also suggests that firms in the industry with high volatility have difficulties in managing optimal distinctiveness of strategic conformity with innovation.

Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the WISC-IV with gifted students.

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen W. Rowe ◽  
Jessica Dandridge ◽  
Alexandra Pawlush ◽  
Dawna F. Thompson ◽  
David E. Ferrier
Keyword(s):  
Gifted Students ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

scholarly journals Как основная образовательная программа связана с метапредметными результатами начального образования

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
И.М. Улановская ◽  
М.А. Янишевская
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Cognitive Competencies ◽  
Specific Impact

The article compares two primary school educational programs: "School of Russia" and "Planet of Knowledge". The diagnostics of cognitive meta-subject results of students who have mastered these two programs is carried out. Original diagnostic methods are used. It is shown that the content of the program "School of Russia" does not have a specific impact on the development of cognitive meta-subject competencies. As for the students who have mastered the program "Planet of Knowledge", the results of mastering the action of analysis (on both formal and theoretical level) are higher than the "expected" results determined by the indicators of intellectual development. This may indicate a positive impact of the educational program "Planet of Knowledge" on the development of some cognitive competencies in primary school.

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