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The Social Construction of Ability Perceptions

An Ethnographic Study of Gifted Adolescent Girls

Linda R. Kramer

State University of New York at Brockport San Diego State University

The role of school and community contexts in the formation of gifted adolescent girls' self-perceptions of ability are explored in this article. Findings are based on an ethnographic study which used participant-observation, interviewing, and unobtrusive measures to collect data on girls' experiences in one middle school. The results of this study indicated that social interaction contributed to the development of self-perceptions of ability, and that self-perceptions of ability, in turn, influenced gifted girls' decisions about appropriate achievement-related behavior. The formation of ability perceptions was seen as a cyclic process: gifted girls' interpretations of significant others' beliefs about giftedness influenced their self-estimates of ability and classroom behaviors, and their behaviors brought them feedback about their own abilities.

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 11, No. 3, 340-362 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431691113003
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