Australian educators' perspectives of gifted education

Abstract

This data is derived from a Doctoral thesis on Australian educators' perspectives of gifted education, and is in two parts. Participants for stage 1 included 102 Australian educators from all states and territories in the country; with data collected in the second half of 2018. Data is mixed methods in nature, and relates to the gifted education elements of conceptions, belief of purpose, identification, and provisions. Files included are: Copy of Qualtrics survey (pdf) Data collected from survey (exl) Part 2 of the study was in the form of semi-structured interviews with 13 Australian educator participants who also took part in the survey. Interviews took place in 2019. Data is qualitative in nature, and relates to the gifted education elements of conceptions, belief of purpose, identification, provisions, and additional data on educators experiences with gifted education. Files included are: Interview script (pdf) Transcripts of interviews (pdf) Audio recordings of interviews (MP3 Audio files (VLC))