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Motivating gifted students can present a challenge for any teacher. This book is packed with strategies and helpful tips to help you motivate your gifted learners. The authors offer specific ideas for making sure that the gifted children in your classroom stay engaged and excited about learning. Although gifted students are not normally considered at risk for academic failure, the seeming lack of motivation of many academically gifted students is a continuing area of concern and frustration for many teachers, parents, and counselors. Del Siegle and D. Betsy McCoach explore crucial issues such as why some students who seem capable of outstanding performance fail to realize their potential and what causes some gifted students to be more motivated than others. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education. Educational Resource

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D. Betsy McCoach, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Measurement, Evaluation and Assessment program at the University of Connecticut. Betsy has published more than 75 journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Motivating Gifted Students with Del Siegle and Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data with Ann O'Connell. Her newest book, Instrument Development in the Affective Domain (3rd ed.), coauthored with Robert K. Gable and John P. Madura, will be released in 2013. Betsy served as the founding coeditor for the Journal of Advanced Academics, and she is the current coeditor of Gifted Child Quarterly. She is also an associate editor of Frontiers in Measurement and Quantitative Psychology. Betsy serves as a coprincipal investigator and research methodologist on several federally funded research grants, including Project Early Vocabulary Intervention, funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, and School Structure and Science Success: Organization and Leadership Influences on Student Success, funded by the National Science Foundation. In addition, she has served as the research methodologist for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented for the last 6 years. Her research interests include gifted education, underachievement, and assessing academic growth and achievement. Frances A. Karnes is professor of curriculum, instruction, and special education at The University of Southern Mississippi. She is widely known for her teaching, research, publications, innovative program developments, and service activities in gifted education and leadership training.

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