Development and Implementation of 'Inventories of Evaluating Science Gifted Education Programs':Centering Around SNU Science-gifted Education Center

Abstract

Seoul National University has started science gifted

education program since 1998, and asked for evaluating

it. The inventories of evaluating for the observers,

students, and teachers are developed based on the

elements that gifted educators have insisted as gifted

programs must have. Nine programs of the SNU

Science-gifted Education Center have been checked using

those inventories. The Objective of this evaluation is to

confirm whether the SNU Science-gifted Education program

is reflecting science gifted students' abilities and their

educational needs as well, or if it'll be able to achieve its

goal of developing students' maximum potential and foster

future scientists as self-leading learners. It was found

that these inventories for students, observers and teachers

were useful in evaluating the science gifted education

program. It is expected that checking programs step by step, finding which changes would be needed, correcting

and complementing can build up bases of our country's

gifted education growth in quality as well as in quantity.