Background Knowledge from educational research frequently contradicts preservice
teachers' prior beliefs about educational topics. Such contradictions can seriously affect their …

Negative stereotypes about intellectually gifted individuals prevail among teachers and in
society although empirical research has debunked them. They are also dominant in mass …

In an age when technology is effective in many areas, it's unreasonable to keep kids away
from it. Children born in the age of technology, who share their photos against their will from …

Introduction Understanding brain functioning and intellectual giftedness can be challenging
and give rise to various misconceptions. Nonetheless, there seems to be a widespread …

Teachers play important roles in identifying and promoting gifted students. An open question
is: Which student characteristics do teachers use to evaluate whether a student is gifted or …

Extending research on the 'disharmony stereotype', we examined teachers-in-training's
perceptions of gifted children's characteristics and their expected teacher-child interactions …

This study explored the Social Representations (SRs) of Gifted Children in France, both in
the general adult population and in different childhood professionals's populations (ie …

Fostering metacognitive awareness of misconceptions should enhance deep processing of
scientifically correct explanations and thereby decrease misconceptions. To explore these …

Preservice teachers should learn about motivation theory during their university studies in
order to be able to motivate their students in their future job. Thus, this study had two …

The purpose of this study was to analyze the development of pedagogical content
knowledge (PCK) of science teachers with different teaching experience on acids and bases …