Author Question: On average, children who attend schools for gifted students have lower self-esteem than children of ... (Read 268 times)

Sufayan.ah · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

On average, children who attend schools for gifted students have lower self-esteem than children of equal intelligence who attend regular schools with students of widely varying abilities. If we consider research about factors affecting youngsters' sense of self, we can explain this finding in which one of the following ways?

a. Children who attend gifted programs typically have assertive parents, and such parents tend to undermine their children's self-esteem.
b. Having a label of any kindeven the label giftedtends to lower self-esteem.
c. Identifying a child as gifted requires an intensive evaluation, and evaluations inevitably lower self-esteem.
d. Children form their self-concepts in part by comparing their own performance to the performance of those around them.

Question 2

Which one of the following metacognitive skills related to writing poses the greatest challenge for adolescents?

a. Writing about a single topic in depth
b. Identifying problems in their own writing
c. Taking the audience into account when writing
d. Writing complex sentences with one or more dependent clauses