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Gifted Phoenix Twitter Round-up Volume 12: Giftedness and Gifted Education
. Here is a slightly overdue termly round-up of activity on the Gifted Phoenix Twitter feed. The sheer volume of activity undertaken over the four month period since my last review – attributable to my...
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PISA 2012: International Comparison of High Achievers’ Performance
. This post examines what PISA 2012 can tell us about the comparative performance of high achievers in England, other English-speaking countries and those that top the PISA rankings. Introductory...
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Gifted Phoenix’s 2013 Review and Retrospective
. This final post of 2013 takes a reflective look back at this year’s activity. One purpose is straightforward self-congratulation – a self-administered pat on the back for all my hard work! This is...
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A Brief Discussion about Gifted Labelling and its Permanency
. Some of my readership may be interested in this Twitter exchange with Ellen Spencer a researcher at the Centre for Real-World Learning, the Claxton-Lucas vehicle based at the University of...
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How Well Does Gifted Education Use Social Media?
. This post reviews the scope and quality of gifted education coverage across selected social media. It uses this evidence base to reflect on progress in the 18 months since I last visited this topic...
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PISA 2012 Creative Problem Solving: International Comparison of High...
. This post compares the performance of high achievers from selected jurisdictions on the PISA 2012 creative problem solving test. It draws principally on the material in the OECD Report ‘PISA 2012...
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‘Poor but Bright’ v ‘Poor but Dim’
This post explores whether, in supporting learners from disadvantaged backgrounds, educators should prioritise low attainers over high attainers, or give them equal priority. Introduction Last...
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Closing England’s Excellence Gaps: Part One
@GiftedPhoenix very useful summary – the importance of both high achievement and subject choice at GCSE needs more investigation. — Anna Vignoles (@AnnaVignoles) September 14, 2014 Catching up on an...
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Closing England’s Excellence Gaps: Part 2
Catching up on an excellent blog by @GiftedPhoenix on closing the excellence gap for disadvantaged high attainers: http://t.co/FQXtDMyfCg — Julie McCulloch (@juliecmcculloch) September 17, 2014...
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Beware the ‘short head': PISA’s Resilient Students’ Measure
This post takes a closer look at the PISA concept of ‘resilient students’ – essentially a measure of disadvantaged high attainment amongst 15 year-olds – and how this varies from country to country....
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Excellence Gaps Quality Standard: Version 1
This post is the first stage of a potential development project. It is my initial ‘aunt sally’ for a new best fit quality standard, intended to support schools and colleges to close performance gaps...
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Gifted Phoenix 2014 Review and Retrospective
. I am rounding out this year’s blogging with my customary backwards look at the various posts I published during 2014. This is partly an exercise in self-congratulation but also flags up to readers...
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The Last Post
. I promised that I would post a final entry on this blog to explain why Gifted Phoenix is returning to the flames. This is published exactly one week prior to regeneration. Let me apologise at the...
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