Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research
Abstract
An evaluation was carried out of the second year of functioning of the National
Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) with an emphasis on the summer
schools as experienced by the students, their parents and the course leaders. The
evaluation included pre and post questionnaires sent to students and their parents,
as well as interviews with students and course leaders. Specifically, a pre-summer
school experience questionnaire was sent to students and a post-summer school
questionnaire was sent to both students and parents. Also, a sample (n=87) of
students who had responded to the first questionnaire were interviewed at the end of
the three-week period at all five sites to obtain their views on the summer school
experience. Finally, 26 of the 28 course leaders involved were interviewed during the
third week of the summer school