This text was prepared as an introduction to the exciting field of gifted education. It is suitable
for college undergraduate and graduate readers, for in-service teachers in elementary or …

This Handbook is about the past, present, and future of systems thinking. It captures the
history of systems thinking over its first three 'waves,'which are thought of as significant …

This book provides an up-to-date, panoramic picture of the field of intellectual styles through
describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic …

The main purpose of the author's research was to investigate whether thinking styles
significantly contribute to critical thinking dispositions. Two samples of Chinese university …

In the present study, the author investigated the role of thinking styles in university students'
preferences for teaching styles and their conceptions of effective teachers. Students (121 …

In individual differences psychology, one of the long-standing debated issues has been
focusing on the nature of the field-dependence/independence construct as defined in …

The present study is a further examination of the contributions of thinking styles to academic
achievement (see LF. Zhang, 2001a, 2001b, 2002f; LF. Zhang & RJ Sternberg, 1998) …

Human development is generally regarded as an interaction between individual
characteristics and envi-ronmental conditions. Historically, psychologists have debated …

The study aimed to empirically verify findings from qualitative studies that showed selective
consumers could be distinguished from underachievers with regard to academic self …

This report reviews the literature on noncognitive and other background predictors (eg,
personality, attitudes, and interests) as it pertains to graduate education. The first section …