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Engaging Gifted Science Students through Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Robert Hollow*
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility E-mail: Robert.Hollow@csiro.au

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Astronomy is a subject that poses many deep questions that intrigue students. It can effectively engage gifted and talented science students in their school years. Numerous international and Australian schemes utilize astronomy as a means of challenging and extending such students. Using Gagné’s definition, gifted students have potential distinctly above average in one or more of the domains; intellectual, creative, social and physical. Talented students exhibit skills that are distinctly above average in an area of human performance. Such students may comprise about 10-15% of age peers in that field. Theymay be identified through a variety of means; by teacher, parent or self, sometimes via diagnostic tests, at others through participation in hobbies or other interests.

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II. Special Scientific Sessions
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