Document Type

Article

Department/Program

Education

Pub Date

2-9-2016

Abstract

This study examined identification with school among middle school students and its relationship with academic crowd membership, a public expression of one’s academic orientation. Of the 127 Grade 6 to 8 students in the sample, 55 reported participation in a gifted program; 44% of these gifted students did not claim affiliation with the academic crowd. There was a positive correlation between identification with school and the importance placed on membership for students in the academic crowd, both gifted and nongifted. The California Bully Victimization Scale was used to determine that no group was more likely to have been victimized. Cluster analysis of crowd memberships indicated that gifted students not in the academic crowd had few other crowd memberships, suggesting that middle school may be an important time to encourage a willingness to be viewed by peers as academically oriented through promoting identification with school.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/0162353215624162

Journal Title

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

Volume

39

Issue

1

Journal Article URL

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162353215624162

First Page

23

Publisher Statement

This is the accepted, post-print version of the article.

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