Effects of Software on Gifted Students Achievement and Activities in Elementary Education: Cross-Cultural Investigation

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Author(s): Ali Sharaf Al-Musawi (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman), Sahar Ahmed El Shourbagi (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)and Balqees Khalfan Al Saddi (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 29
Source title: Handbook of Research on Software for Gifted and Talented School Activities in K-12 Classrooms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shigeru Ikuta (Otsuma Women's University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1400-9.ch004

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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This chapter aims to compare the ways that teachers in both countries, Oman and Canada, respond to the needs of gifted students and deal with them in elementary schools, with a focus on the use of instructional software and their impacts on gifted students' achievement and activities. It reviews the literature in this field, explains and analyzes the collected data and findings of a small-scale study conducted with teachers of gifted students in the two countries. The chapter then presents the schoolteachers' perceptions about the impacts of instructional software on gifted students. Conclusions are drawn and future prospectives are pointed out.

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