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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Enrichment programs

Overview

  • Influence: Enrichment programs
  • Domain: Curricula
  • Sub-Domain: Curricula for gifted students
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Programs that provide gifted and talented students with activities that add to or go beyond the existing curriculum. They may occur in the classroom or in a separate setting such as a pull-out program.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 6
  • Number of studies: 262
  • Number of students: 146,009
  • Number of effects: 591
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.51
  • Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Book Wallace USA The effects of enrichment on gifted students: a quantitative synthesis 1989 Enrichment programs with gifted 138 22,908 136 0.57
Educational and Child Psychology Romney Canada A meta-analytic evaluation of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment program 2001 Feuerstein's instrumental enrichment with gifted 40 13,428 47 0.35
Dissertation Henfield, Woo, & Bang USA A meta-analysis of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment 2002 Feuerstein's instrumental enrichment with gifted 36 0 360 0.26
Gifted Child Quarterly Kim USA A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Enrichment Programs on Gifted Students 2016 Enrichment programs with gifted 13 0 13 0.96
Gifted Child Quarterly Henfield, Woo, & Bang USA Gifted Ethnic Minority Students and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis 2017 Gifted on African American students 13 10,616 13 0.25
Dissertation Tosun Turkey Meta-Analysis on the Effect of Enrichment Programs on the Academic Achievement of Gifted and Talented Students 2022 Enrichment programs with gifted 22 99,057 22 0.68
TOTAL/AVERAGE 262 146,009 591 0.51
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