Excellence Gaps: What They Are, Why They Are Bad, and How Smart Contexts Can Address Them … or Make Them Worse

Autor/inn/en	Hardesty, Jacob; McWilliams, Jenna; Plucker, Jonathan A.
Titel	Excellence Gaps: What They Are, Why They Are Bad, and How Smart Contexts Can Address Them … or Make Them Worse
Quelle	In: High Ability Studies, 25 (2014) 1, S.71-80 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359-8139
DOI	10.1080/13598139.2014.907646
Schlagwörter	Achievement Gap; High Achievement; Context Effect; Access to Computers; Computer Uses in Education; Federal Legislation; Educational Legislation; National Competency Tests; Poverty; Minority Groups; Talent Development; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey; National Assessment of Educational Progress + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computernutzung; Bundesrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Armut; Ethnische Minderheit; Begabtenförderung; Talentförderung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Every country--and even every community--has populations of students who severely underperform relative to other groups and to their own potential. These performance differences are generally called achievement gaps, and they tend to focus on gaps at basic levels of academic proficiency. But such gaps also exist among the highest levels of achievement, a problem labeled excellence gaps. Recent research provides evidence that these differential achievement effects are due--at least in part--to debilitating contextual factors, such as poverty, negative peer pressure, and discrimination. Given the increasingly recognizable "digital turn" in the classroom, access to and thoughtful use of emergent technologies could play a role in shrinking excellence gaps. Unfortunately, research shows such technologies disproportionately exist in relatively wealthy, predominantly white schools. We identify the potential relationship between lack of availability to technology and widening excellence gaps. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10