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Resources:
WKU Honors Program (http://www.wku.edu/Honors/)
The honors program at WKU offers gifted students a challenging
curriculum enriched with opportunities to engage in community
service, international study, independent research projects,
and so on.
The National Collegiate Honors Council (www.nchchonors.org)
As the national organization to which honors programs are affiliated,
NCHC provides useful information related to honors programs
and gifted college students through several publications (e.g.,
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council and Honors
in Practice), a yearly conference, satellite seminars, etc.
“Peterson’s Honors Programs”
This book provides comprehensive profiles of honors programs
throughout the United States and is the official guide of the
National Collegiate Honors Council.
References:
Digby, J. (1999). Peterson’s honors programs: Two- and
four-year colleges with honors programs designed to challenge
and inspire talented students (2nd ed.). Princeton, NJ: Peterson’s.
Kanevsky, L. & Keighley, T. (2003). To produce or not to
produce? Understanding boredom and the honor in underachievement.
Roeper Review Fall, 26(1).
Kerr, B. A., & Colangelo, N. (1988). The college plans
of academically talented students. Journal of Counseling and
Development, 67, 42-48.
Parker, W. D., & Adkins, K. K. (1995). The incidence of
perfectionism in honors and regular college students. Journal
of Secondary Gifted Education, 7(1), 303-309.
Pascarella, E. T., & Terenzini, P. T. (1991). How college
affects students: Findings and insights from twenty years of
research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Rinn, A. N., & Plucker, J. A. (2004). We recruit them,
but then what? The educational and psychological experiences
of academically talented undergraduates. Gifted Child Quarterly,
48(1), 54-67.
Tomlinson, C. A. (2001). How to differentiate instruction in
mixed-ability classrooms (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson.
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