Smartest science students can be undiscovered in school system, research shows
3 Feb, 2021 08:40 PM
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NZ Herald
The smartest science students in New Zealand are not always being identified through the school system, research from Victoria University of Wellington shows.
A professor from the university s Faculty of Education, Dr Azra Moeed, has been investigating the identification of science students with independent researcher Dr Jenny Horsley.
The research has been laid out in a chapter in the Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific
Moeed has spent 40 years teaching and researching science in New Zealand schools and said high-academic-ability science students were not always discovered through the school system.