TY - JOUR
T1 - Blending Research-Based Practices and Practice-Embedded Research
T2 - Project Excite Closes Achievement and Excellence Gaps for Underrepresented Gifted Minority Students
AU - Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula
AU - Steenbergen-Hu, Saiying
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 National Association for Gifted Children.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - In this article, we advocate for a new movement in education, particularly an approach emphasizing blending research-based practice with practice-embedded research. We do so by describing and discussing Project Excite, a working example that demonstrates such a model in the context of gifted education. We first trace the history, the impetus, and key design elements of Project Excite, a front-loading intervention aiming to develop the potential of underrepresented students for advanced science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning from early grades. We review a line of past research and key findings on Project Excite over its 14-year journey. We then discuss the implication of Project Excite for gifted programming in gifted education. Last, we pinpoint some questions to inspire future research and practice.
AB - In this article, we advocate for a new movement in education, particularly an approach emphasizing blending research-based practice with practice-embedded research. We do so by describing and discussing Project Excite, a working example that demonstrates such a model in the context of gifted education. We first trace the history, the impetus, and key design elements of Project Excite, a front-loading intervention aiming to develop the potential of underrepresented students for advanced science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning from early grades. We review a line of past research and key findings on Project Excite over its 14-year journey. We then discuss the implication of Project Excite for gifted programming in gifted education. Last, we pinpoint some questions to inspire future research and practice.
KW - achievement gap
KW - front-loading strategy
KW - minority students
KW - practice-embedded research
KW - research-based practice
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U2 - 10.1177/0016986217701836
DO - 10.1177/0016986217701836
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85021066888
SN - 0016-9862
VL - 61
SP - 202
EP - 209
JO - Gifted Child Quarterly
JF - Gifted Child Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -