Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling for Gifted Children - Model of Academic Achievement of “Dark Horse”

Yuyus Suherman

2017

Abstract

This research aims to test the effectiveness of comprehensive guidance and counselling (the model) on improving academic achievement of gifted children "underachiever" is also known as "dark horse". This research uses quasi-experimental design. The experiment condition focused on implementation model by counsellors and through integrated guidance and counselling by the teacher, parent and community. Participants consisted of 15 gifted children at a pioneer "5-year primary school" pioneering inclusive education in Indonesia. The statistical analysis used Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test, with a one-sided test. The result showed that the implementation of the model does not significantly impact the academic achievement of gifted children. We also found that even though the score is getting down, the quality is still increasing that is not readable by the statistics, but the individual analysis shows that this model has a tangible impact. The tangible impact is shown in the improvement of the categories i.e. From ‘mildly gifted’ to ‘moderately gifted’, ‘moderately gifted’ to ‘profoundly gifted’, even from ‘mildly gifted’ to ‘profoundly gifted’. This finding is an essential evaluation of the policy to implement acceleration program, and the basic development of guiding and counselling on gifted children program. In conclusion, individually this model proved to have an effect to optimize the academic potential of gifted children "underachiever". The implications of gifted children should be confronted with appropriate activities. The role of parents and society needs to be optimally organized. By utilizing the existing momentum. As in the beginning, mid and end of the semester, as well as extracurricular activities. Momentum can be used as a media sharing experience between school, family, and community.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Suherman Y. (2017). Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling for Gifted Children - Model of Academic Achievement of “Dark Horse”.In 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES, ISBN 978-989-758-314-8, pages 374-380. DOI: 10.5220/0007050909230929

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ices17,
author={Yuyus Suherman},
title={Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling for Gifted Children - Model of Academic Achievement of “Dark Horse”},
booktitle={1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES,},
year={2017},
pages={374-380},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007050909230929},
isbn={978-989-758-314-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES,
TI - Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling for Gifted Children - Model of Academic Achievement of “Dark Horse”
SN - 978-989-758-314-8
AU - Suherman Y.
PY - 2017
SP - 374
EP - 380
DO - 10.5220/0007050909230929