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  • This study examined the effects of an enrichment program that used Type III activities (Renzulli, 1997) which were targeted at an identified area of cognitive strength or domain-specific area of giftedness (visual-spatial skills) on students' leadership, social skills, and attention in the classroom. The premise of the study was that providing an enrichment program in an area of students' cognitive strength would positively impact their classroom behaviors. This empirical investigation used a pre- and post-test design with random assignment to an experimental group (n=12) and a control group (n=11) of 3rd 4 th, and 5th grade elementary school students in a school district with a large number of disadvantaged and minority students. Participants of the intervention were chosen on the basis of above average visual-spatial skills as measured by the Culture Fair Intelligence Test (Cattell, 1973) and were identified by their teachers as struggling with the traditional curriculum. The intervention was an after-school enrichment program that involved building a series of eight engineering projects. Teachers of the students completed the subscales for leadership, social skills, and attention problems from the Behavior Assessment Scale for Children, Second Edition (Reynolds & Kamphaus, 2004) at three measurement dates (pre-test, post-test, and post-control intervention). A multivariate covariate analysis (MANCOVA) was conducted after the experimental group completed the enrichment program that compared the changes in behavior between the experimental and control groups. There was no significant measured effect noted in the experimental group, when the experimental group was compared to the control group after the intervention. However, there was a significant change in the measured behaviors of the control group following their participation in the intervention, including an increase in the behaviors associated with leadership, and a reduction in attention problems. The inconsistency of these results may be attributable to differences between the two groups and supports the need for additional research to determine the effects of domain-specific interventions. The results of this study suggest that interventions that are targeted at students' cognitive strength may help them develop better problem-solving skills, and also improve their engagement in the classroom. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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