Brief Overview of the Current State of Gifted Education in the Dominican Republic

Abstract

This chapter addresses the current social-political challenges to providing education to the gifted in the Dominican Republic, including issues in the enforcement of educational laws and ordinances, a lack of vision and moral/ethical values in all stakeholder categories, and inefficiencies in the educational system. In this chapter, we address the challenges of designing identification instruments and processes from scratch given that existing literature on gifted education mainly addresses the US context, where valid aptitude and achievement tests and checklists are available to use.

Citation

Jáquez, L.R., Jáquez, R.B. and Collado, D.S. (2016), "Brief Overview of the Current State of Gifted Education in the Dominican Republic", Gifted Children of Color Around the World: Diverse Needs, Exemplary Practices, and Directions for the Future (Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Vol. 3), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 137-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-231720160000003025