136 middle school students identified as gifted and talented in a suburban central Texas campus self-reported on their modes of expression through a written survey. The data captures student rankings of categories like 'Speaking', 'Appearance', and 'Other', with details on sharing opinions, clothing, and hobbies. Researcher A'ndrea Fisher conducted this exploratory action-research study to understand how gifted youth develop their voice.
Use Cases
- Analyze the frequency of 'Speaking', 'Appearance', and 'Other' as primary self-expression categories among 136 gifted adolescents.
- Investigate correlations between reported expression through clothing ('Appearance') and the sharing of opinions and insights ('Speaking').
- Examine how 'Other' category components like sports and hobbies serve as expressions of self for gifted middle school youth.
- Compare the prevalence of combined expression categories ('Speaking + Appearance', 'Speaking + Appearance + Other') against single categories.
Strengths
- Dataset includes 136 participant responses, providing a substantive sample for the under-researched population of gifted middle school students.
- Focus on a specific demographic: students identified as gifted and talented from a suburban campus in central Texas.
- Data captures nuanced self-reported categories of expression, including 'Speaking', 'Appearance', 'Artistic', 'Written', and 'Other'.
Limitations
- Sample is limited to a single suburban campus in central Texas, limiting geographic and demographic generalizability.
- Data is self-reported via survey, which may be subject to social desirability bias or recall inaccuracies.
- No direct comparison group of non-gifted adolescents is included within the dataset.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Written survey administered by teacher-researcher to middle school GT elective class students.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Suburban campus in central Texas, United States.