{"id":11547,"date":"2021-12-23T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=11547"},"modified":"2022-01-04T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:45:29","slug":"uw-stevens-point-professor-openness-to-new-experiences-linked-to-gifted-talented-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2021\/12\/23\/uw-stevens-point-professor-openness-to-new-experiences-linked-to-gifted-talented-students\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Stevens Point professor: Openness to new experiences linked to gifted, talented students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you are more open to trying new \nexperiences, it could mean you among the more creative and gifted of the\n world, according to a new study by a University of Wisconsin-Stevens \nPoint education professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor Uzeyir Ogurlu, an \nexpert in gifted education, analyzed the personality differences of \ngifted students using the widely used Big Five personality model for \ninteraction with others. It includes extroversion, agreeableness, \nconscientiousness, neuroticsm and openness to experience. Gifted \nstudents scored higher in openness, as did creatively gifted adults and \ncollege honor students, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Openness to experience is a \nsignificant predictor of creativity and intelligence,” he said. “This \nshows that gifted students are more open to new learning, discovery, \nexploration and curiosity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogurlu and research partner Adnan \n\u00d6zbey, a gifted education researcher at the University of North Texas, \nused a meta-analysis method to study a sample of 8,000 people, including\n 3,244 gifted individuals, to compare the Big Five personality traits. \nTheir analysis has been published nationally by the journal, High \nAbility Studies, and cited in Psychology Today and various online \noutlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogurlu hopes to use his findings to create effective \nexperiences for the emotional and social development of gifted students,\n as well as highlight the similarities that gifted students have with \nothers rather than focus on how some may label them as different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The\n findings of this study could debunk the misconception that gifted \nstudents have a maladaptive personality or social difficulties,” he \nsaid. “Teachers could approach their gifted students without any biases,\n plus when they are creating educational opportunities for gifted \nstudents they could consider this social emotional pattern, not only \nfocusing cognitive potentials.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is also using the study to \nprepare his UW-Stevens Point students as future gifted and talented \nteachers who look at all aspects of learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“UWSP has an \nundergraduate course about gifted education, which most schools do not \nhave,” he said. “This is a great privilege for our preservice teachers \nand their future students. Results have shown that teachers who are \ntrained on gifted education teach all students more effectively.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next summer UW-Stevens Point will begin a gifted and talented education add-on certification graduate program<\/a> for in-service teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents\n of gifted students may also benefit from this study, he said, as they \ncould adjust their expectations for their children as well as advocate \nfor gifted education programs in schools that offer new experiences and \ncultivate creativity, imagination and out-of-the-box thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Scholars in gifted education are not trying to create an elite community,” Ogurlu said, “but rather help these students with needs that are not often met in school settings.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News release courtesy of University Communications and Marketing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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