Research in聽gifted聽education聽focuses聽on聽the聽education, training and/or development聽of聽individuals of high ability.聽The Gifted Education Research, Resource and Information Centre鈥()聽is an integral part of聽the research community聽that聽aims聽to advance knowledge and practice on the education, learning, teaching, wellbeing,and development of聽gifted聽students.聽GERRIC聽is the pre-eminent centre of聽gifted education聽in the聽Southern Hemisphere.聽
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- Talent Development
- Twice-Exceptionality
- Diverse Gifted Populations (e.g., rural and remote, EAL/D)
- Underachievement
- Career Development
- Professional Learning for teachers, school counsellors, and leadership teams
- Motivation and Engagement
- Effective Programming and Differentiation for Gifted Learners, including acceleration, enrichment, compacting, critical and creative thinking
- Identification
- Social-Emotional Development
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- Professional learning in gifted education for school counsellors/psychologists
- Gifted Autistic individuals
- The attitudes towards gifted education at a systemic level
- The challenges of providing gifted education at a systemic level.
- Motivational profiles of academically gifted students in science
- Provisions for gifted and talented students in remote and rural context
- Cognitive load theory in gifted education
- Inquiry-based learning in science in gifted education
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- Career decisions of gifted students (current and planned)
- Twice exceptional gifted students (current and planned)
- Rural gifted students (current and planned)
- Attitudes toward gifted students (current and planned)
- International Mathematics Olympians (current)
- Creativity (planned)
- Wellbeing of gifted students (planned)
- Evaluation of gifted education program (current and planned)
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- Associate Professor Jae Jung
- Dr. Geraldine Townend
- Dr. Marie McGregor
- Dr. Jihyun Lee
- Carol Barnes
- Dr. Susen Smith
- Dr. Raquel Pardo de Santayana Sanz
- Dr. Trevor Clark
- Kate Caldecott-Davis
- Dr. Sue Ann Lim
- Dr. Rajini Mangaleswarasharma
- Dr. Rahmi Jackson
- Professor Jennifer Jolly
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Catholic Education South Australia project
Research projects (including one current project on attitudes toward gifted education) that will ultimately inform the development of a gifted education program and gifted education policy for Catholic Education South Australia.
Australian Mensa project聽
An investigation of聽the development of mathematical talent among International聽Maths聽Olympians and their post-education career decisions.
Gifted education program evaluation projects
Research relating to the evaluation of gifted education programs in schools (projects have been completed for聽two聽schools)
Twice exceptional聽students聽project聽
A series of projects on an educational/vocational curriculum for twice exceptional students are being conducted with ASPECT (Autism Spectrum Australia) and Griffith University.
An annual conference: 鈥淚gnite the Spark, Fuel the Fire鈥
Hosted in partnership with the NSW Department of Education.
MOU with聽KAIST and PUCV
Finalisation聽stage of Memoranda of Understanding with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Pontificia Universidad聽Cat贸lica聽de Valpara铆so (PUCV).
Editorship of the Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia Pacific
Editorship of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education
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Partners and collaborators
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- Catholic Education South Australia
- NSW Department of Education
- Australian Mensa
- Sydney Catholic Schools
- ASPECT
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- Asia Pacific Federation on Giftedness
- Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented
- Gifted NSW
- NSW Department of Education
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- Initial Teacher Education in Gifted Education
- Graduate Certificate in Gifted Education
- Masters in Gifted Education
- Micro-credentialing Unit in Gifted Education
- A suite of Professional Learning Courses in Gifted Education, including:
- Mini-COGE
- Mini-COGE Advanced (Gifted Learners with Disability)
- Mini-COGE Advanced
- Mini-COGE Connect