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View article: Talent Development from the Perspective of Developmental Science
Talent Development from the Perspective of Developmental Science Open
This is a guide book for the field of talent development studies. It maps out a taxonomy of research with detailed description of purposes and methods.
View article: Curriculum Innovation in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Thinking-Based Instruction Theory and Its Application
Curriculum Innovation in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Thinking-Based Instruction Theory and Its Application Open
At the beginning of 2020, to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the campus, the Ministry of Education of China launched a policy “Suspension of classes without suspending schooling” for the spring semester of 2020. Ho…
View article: From Science Student to Scientist
From Science Student to Scientist Open
Science students are taught that science is a collection of facts and equations when in fact, science is a journey full of false starts, dead ends, and creative detours undertaken by scientists to uncover the truth of reality. A science st…
View article: Behind an Accelerated Scientific Research Career: Dynamic Interplay of Endogenous and Exogenous Forces in Talent Development
Behind an Accelerated Scientific Research Career: Dynamic Interplay of Endogenous and Exogenous Forces in Talent Development Open
This study looks at the educational experiences, from the preschool years to advanced professional training in STEM fields, of a targeted sample of 10 (7 male, 3 female) early college entrants in China who later became professors at presti…
View article: Rethinking Human Potential From a Talent Development Perspective
Rethinking Human Potential From a Talent Development Perspective Open
Historically, the potential of a person has been perceived as fixed and primarily inherited, thus, different from achievement. Current thinking broadens our view of human potential, not as a fixed capacity, but as malleable and incremental…
View article: Assessing and accessing high human potential: A brief history of giftedness and what it means to school psychologists
Assessing and accessing high human potential: A brief history of giftedness and what it means to school psychologists Open
The history of giftedness pertains to historical changes regarding how giftedness is conceptualized and defined, and how it serves the practical purpose of identifying gifted children and providing them an appropriate education. The past c…
View article: QEOSA: A Pedagogical Model That Harnesses Cultural Resources to Foster Creative Problem-Solving
QEOSA: A Pedagogical Model That Harnesses Cultural Resources to Foster Creative Problem-Solving Open
The nature of creative thinking is complex and multifaceted, often involving cognitive processes and dispositions modulated by implicit cultural belief systems and ways of thinking. In this article, we build on existing research on the rel…
View article: Similarity-Based Reasoning, Raven's Matrices, and General Intelligence
Similarity-Based Reasoning, Raven's Matrices, and General Intelligence Open
This paper presents a model tackling a variant of the Raven's Matrices family of human intelligence tests along with computational experiments. Raven's Matrices are thought to challenge human subjects' ability to generalize knowledge and d…
View article: Relations between Parenting and Adolescents’ Academic Functioning: The Mediating Role of Achievement Goal Orientations
Relations between Parenting and Adolescents’ Academic Functioning: The Mediating Role of Achievement Goal Orientations Open
We investigated whether and how adolescents’ perceived parental psychological control and autonomy support influence their maladaptive academic functioning through their achievement goal orientations. Participants were 845 tenth-grade stud…
View article: CCDC 1842297: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1842297: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: Openness to Experience as a Moderator of the Relationship between Intelligence and Creative Thinking: A Study of Chinese Children in Urban and Rural Areas
Openness to Experience as a Moderator of the Relationship between Intelligence and Creative Thinking: A Study of Chinese Children in Urban and Rural Areas Open
Using testing and questionnaire methods, this study investigated the relationships among openness to experience, intelligence and creative thinking. This study focused on the moderating effects of openness to experience on the relationship…
View article: A Cross-cultural Study of the Construct of Creative Personality in Adolescents
A Cross-cultural Study of the Construct of Creative Personality in Adolescents Open
Background: Since the 1950s, research on creative personality highlights three themes: individual differences among creative people, the construct of creative personality, and longitudinal studies of creative personality. However, that li…