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Parent Survey

Dr. Jennifer Jolly, editor-in-chief of Parenting for High Potential Magazine and a professor at Louisiana State University, sent us the following information about a parent survey that she and Michael Matthews of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are conducting. There hasn't been a large scale survey of parents of gifted learners since 1983, she said. She has submitted the following:

"Parents, Your Opinions are Important!
As a field, we in gifted education know surprisingly little about the experiences and opinions of parents of gifted learners. Please help us to learn more about the issues you face! Researchers at Louisiana State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have developed a survey that we are asking parents of gifted learners to complete. You can fill out our parent survey online by copying and pasting the following url into your browser [http://tiny.cc/LmsOw]. It should only take about 15 minutes to complete, and if you wish, after completing the survey you may provide your contact information to be entered in a drawing to receive materials related to parenting the gifted."

thanks - it wasn't entirely applicable to our lives, but I did it anyway!

I completed the survey. It seemed somewhat on the vague/fuzzy side to me. It wasn't clear to me what they were trying to get out of it, and they assumed that all respondents' children were in gifted programs. Hmm.

Val

I had taken a look at it but clearly this survey is for older kids who are in grade level school so not applicable to us.