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A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE ACHIEVEMENT AND EFFECTS OF THE SCIENTIFICALLY GIFTED STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN A ULTRA HIGH SPEED ACCELERATED EDUCATION FOR THE EARLY ENTRANCE OF KAIST  

Yuk, Keun-Cheol (Kongju National University)
Moon, Jeong-Hwa (Jaeneung College)
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Journal of Gifted/Talented Education / v.14, no.2, 2004 , pp. 1-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study attempted to survey the present status of the eight students who, 17 years from now, had participated in a special program for 170 days preparing for early entrance to the KAIST. With six students who responded to the questionnaire previously sent, the study focused on each participant's achievement at present, his evaluation on Accelerated Education, his personal opinions on early entrance to university and Gifted Science Education. From the survey, we could find out that three participants had received a doctorate and they are currently working as researchers at research center or professors at university. The other three participants are working as researchers at research center after receiving the M. S. Academic achievements vary according to each participant, but three of them, who ranked high in research achievement, had their articles published in international journals of the SCI level even when they were between 25 and 28 of age. Two of them in particular showed outstanding engineering and developing the commercial modem for IMT 2000 for the first time in Korea. One participant entered Harvard University to major in physics and afterwards studied the law in UCLA. He is now a professor in the law department. Concerning the evaluations on Accelerated Education and early entrance system, four participants answered positively while two participants expressed negative attitudes. When asked their opinions on the Gifted Education in Korea, such problems were pointed out as too much pressure of entering the first-class universities, the tendency to avoid choosing science-related major at universities, the lack of education system that encourages creative thinking, etc. It is necessary that the accelerated education play an important role to maximize their hidden potentials. It remains to be seen in what places these six participants will find themselves and of what ideas they will come up within the next 17 years. It will be worthwhile to wait until then for another survey.
Keywords
Longitudinal study; Early entrance; Accelerated Education; Achievement;
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