Susan J Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 209456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan J Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2459-3384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How You Identify Determines Who You Identify
This study investigates the impact of variation in gifted student identification systems on the size, equity, and academic profiles of identified students. Utilizing data from 40,834 students across 519 elementary schools in seven districts, we modeled 64 hypothetical systems, focusing on measures (ability test scores, cognitive scores, and teacher ratings), norms (district and building), cut-off levels (5% and 10%), and data point combinations. …
Gifted education advances school integration and equity
Gifted and talented services have a long and tainted history. Since their inception, they have not served a student population that mirrored the racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic diversity of the nation as a whole. But this need not be the case. Contemporary approaches to gifted education can advance the goals of equity and school integration. In short, they can be a means through which schools serve a more diverse student population. This is poss…
Differential return on investment
BackgroundStudents vary in their initial achievement when they enter school and their rate of academic growth as they move through school. These differences have implications for classroom instruction and educational policy. Although previous research has examined initial achievement and growth differences, a gap remains in understanding how initial level of achievement interacts with subsequent growth as children move through school.AimUsing Vyg…
The Citizen Professionalism of a Weed Scientist
What can we learn about the political roles and work of professionals from a self-described “weed scientist” from Minnesota? A lot, it turns out. This essay draws on stories and judgments expressed in an oral history interview to help us imagine what democratic or citizen professionalism in a highly technical field can look like: what it involves, what promises and dangers it holds, what it’s up against, and why and how it matters
Rethinking how we identify “gifted” students
In the 21st century, what does a defensible, equitable model of gifted and talented student identification look like? For too long, gifted education’s reason for being has been unclear, and the students it has served have been from too narrow a segment of the student population. With renewed attention to equity and personalized learning, gifted education should exist as one pathway through which students can have their needs met. Scott Peters, Ja…
A call to reframe gifted education as maximizing learning
Schools exist to educate, yet the emphasis on age-based, grade-level standards fails to account for the wide range of academic readiness that exists in every classroom. Special education programs exist to meet student needs; gifted education should be no different. The authors, all gifted education researchers, present a vision for a model of gifted education that is aligned with Response to Intervention and personalized learning. At its heart, i…
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the history of community engagement and service learning, best teaching practices and pedagogies, engagement…
The Importance of Multi-Group Validity Evidence in Gifted and Talented Identification and Research
Practitioners and researchers often review the validity evidence of an instrument before using it for student assessment or in the practice of diagnosing or identifying children with exceptionalities. However, few test manuals present data on instrument measurement equivalence/invariance or differential item functioning. This information is critical as it allows the user to determine if the instrument yields equally valid information for a divers…
The heterodoxy of student voice
This article explores the contributions of students’ voices in order to highlight some issues that have been central to disability studies – issues of identities, and their correlations to power, temporality, inclusivity, and place among the most salient to contemporary theories in the sociology of disability and education. Building on previous work that recognizes students’ insights through the metaphors of street‐wise philosophers, image‐makers…
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Book Review| July 01 2010 Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings. Zachary Michael Jack. Scott J. Peters Scott J. Peters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 419–420. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.3.419 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Scott J. Peters;…
Developing citizens and communities through youth environmental action
Although several studies have examined learning outcomes of environmental action experiences for youth, little is known about the aims motivating practitioners to involve youth in action creating positive environmental and social change, nor how practitioners perceive success. This research explored through phenomenological interviews practitioners’ purposes for using an environmental action approach. Practitioners in this inquiry, who engaged yo…
Education for All?”
Education for All (EFA) has been placed on the international policy agenda, but what is meant by “all”? This historical analysis focuses on 12 major international policy documents pertaining to education of disabled children and youth, over a period of approximately 40 years. Using Foucault's effective history and a conceptual framework of policy-as-discourse, this analysis reveals conflicted discourses and fragmented, reinterpreted, and reworked…
The foundations of planetary agrarianism. Thomas Berry and Liberty Hyde Bailey
Every Farmer Should Be Awakened
Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However, one ofthe key leaders in extension's formative period, Cornell University's Liberty Hyde Bailey, articulated a dif? ferent vision of extension's central purpose and promise. Dr…
Every Farmer Should Be Awakened”
Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However, one of the key leaders in extension’s formative period, Cornell University’s Liberty Hyde Bailey, articulated a different vision of extension’s central purpose and promise. Dra…
The Country Life Commission
Theodore Roosevelt charged his 1908 Country Life Commission with looking into the deficiencies of agriculture and country life and the means by which they might be remedied. Though some scholars have judged it a positive milestone in American agricultural history, prevailing assessments are critical, negative, and often conflicting. Critics view it as an example of patronizing, technocratic social engineering aimed at urbanizing and industrializi…
Integration and Socialization of Exceptional Children
This ethnographic study examines the process of socialization for physically challenged children "mainstreamed" in an elementary school program. The research goal was to determine the effects of the mainstream environment on physically challenged children as they were socialized with their peers. Analysis focuses on the social and cultural contexts of mainstreaming practices and the dynamics of interactions at the classroom level. Findings identi…
Education for All?”
Education for All (EFA) has been placed on the international policy agenda, but what is meant by “all”? This historical analysis focuses on 12 major international policy documents pertaining to education of disabled children and youth, over a period of approximately 40 years. Using Foucault's effective history and a conceptual framework of policy-as-discourse, this analysis reveals conflicted discourses and fragmented, reinterpreted, and reworked…
Developing citizens and communities through youth environmental action
Although several studies have examined learning outcomes of environmental action experiences for youth, little is known about the aims motivating practitioners to involve youth in action creating positive environmental and social change, nor how practitioners perceive success. This research explored through phenomenological interviews practitioners’ purposes for using an environmental action approach. Practitioners in this inquiry, who engaged yo…
The heterodoxy of student voice
This article explores the contributions of students’ voices in order to highlight some issues that have been central to disability studies – issues of identities, and their correlations to power, temporality, inclusivity, and place among the most salient to contemporary theories in the sociology of disability and education. Building on previous work that recognizes students’ insights through the metaphors of street‐wise philosophers, image‐makers…
The Country Life Commission
Theodore Roosevelt charged his 1908 Country Life Commission with looking into the deficiencies of agriculture and country life and the means by which they might be remedied. Though some scholars have judged it a positive milestone in American agricultural history, prevailing assessments are critical, negative, and often conflicting. Critics view it as an example of patronizing, technocratic social engineering aimed at urbanizing and industrializi…
Every Farmer Should Be Awakened
Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However, one ofthe key leaders in extension's formative period, Cornell University's Liberty Hyde Bailey, articulated a dif? ferent vision of extension's central purpose and promise. Dr…
Differential return on investment
BackgroundStudents vary in their initial achievement when they enter school and their rate of academic growth as they move through school. These differences have implications for classroom instruction and educational policy. Although previous research has examined initial achievement and growth differences, a gap remains in understanding how initial level of achievement interacts with subsequent growth as children move through school.AimUsing Vyg…
Integration and Socialization of Exceptional Children
This ethnographic study examines the process of socialization for physically challenged children "mainstreamed" in an elementary school program. The research goal was to determine the effects of the mainstream environment on physically challenged children as they were socialized with their peers. Analysis focuses on the social and cultural contexts of mainstreaming practices and the dynamics of interactions at the classroom level. Findings identi…
The Country Life Commission
Theodore Roosevelt charged his 1908 Country Life Commission with looking into the deficiencies of agriculture and country life and the means by which they might be remedied. Though some scholars have judged it a positive milestone in American agricultural history, prevailing assessments are critical, negative, and often conflicting. Critics view it as an example of patronizing, technocratic social engineering aimed at urbanizing and industrializi…
The foundations of planetary agrarianism. Thomas Berry and Liberty Hyde Bailey
Every Farmer Should Be Awakened
Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However, one ofthe key leaders in extension's formative period, Cornell University's Liberty Hyde Bailey, articulated a dif? ferent vision of extension's central purpose and promise. Dr…
Every Farmer Should Be Awakened”
Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However, one of the key leaders in extension’s formative period, Cornell University’s Liberty Hyde Bailey, articulated a different vision of extension’s central purpose and promise. Dra…
Education for All?”
Education for All (EFA) has been placed on the international policy agenda, but what is meant by “all”? This historical analysis focuses on 12 major international policy documents pertaining to education of disabled children and youth, over a period of approximately 40 years. Using Foucault's effective history and a conceptual framework of policy-as-discourse, this analysis reveals conflicted discourses and fragmented, reinterpreted, and reworked…
Developing citizens and communities through youth environmental action
Although several studies have examined learning outcomes of environmental action experiences for youth, little is known about the aims motivating practitioners to involve youth in action creating positive environmental and social change, nor how practitioners perceive success. This research explored through phenomenological interviews practitioners’ purposes for using an environmental action approach. Practitioners in this inquiry, who engaged yo…
The heterodoxy of student voice
This article explores the contributions of students’ voices in order to highlight some issues that have been central to disability studies – issues of identities, and their correlations to power, temporality, inclusivity, and place among the most salient to contemporary theories in the sociology of disability and education. Building on previous work that recognizes students’ insights through the metaphors of street‐wise philosophers, image‐makers…
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Book Review| July 01 2010 Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings. Zachary Michael Jack. Scott J. Peters Scott J. Peters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 419–420. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.3.419 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Scott J. Peters;…
The Importance of Multi-Group Validity Evidence in Gifted and Talented Identification and Research
Practitioners and researchers often review the validity evidence of an instrument before using it for student assessment or in the practice of diagnosing or identifying children with exceptionalities. However, few test manuals present data on instrument measurement equivalence/invariance or differential item functioning. This information is critical as it allows the user to determine if the instrument yields equally valid information for a divers…
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the history of community engagement and service learning, best teaching practices and pedagogies, engagement…
Rethinking how we identify “gifted” students
In the 21st century, what does a defensible, equitable model of gifted and talented student identification look like? For too long, gifted education’s reason for being has been unclear, and the students it has served have been from too narrow a segment of the student population. With renewed attention to equity and personalized learning, gifted education should exist as one pathway through which students can have their needs met. Scott Peters, Ja…
A call to reframe gifted education as maximizing learning
Schools exist to educate, yet the emphasis on age-based, grade-level standards fails to account for the wide range of academic readiness that exists in every classroom. Special education programs exist to meet student needs; gifted education should be no different. The authors, all gifted education researchers, present a vision for a model of gifted education that is aligned with Response to Intervention and personalized learning. At its heart, i…
The Citizen Professionalism of a Weed Scientist
What can we learn about the political roles and work of professionals from a self-described “weed scientist” from Minnesota? A lot, it turns out. This essay draws on stories and judgments expressed in an oral history interview to help us imagine what democratic or citizen professionalism in a highly technical field can look like: what it involves, what promises and dangers it holds, what it’s up against, and why and how it matters
Differential return on investment
BackgroundStudents vary in their initial achievement when they enter school and their rate of academic growth as they move through school. These differences have implications for classroom instruction and educational policy. Although previous research has examined initial achievement and growth differences, a gap remains in understanding how initial level of achievement interacts with subsequent growth as children move through school.AimUsing Vyg…
Gifted education advances school integration and equity
Gifted and talented services have a long and tainted history. Since their inception, they have not served a student population that mirrored the racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic diversity of the nation as a whole. But this need not be the case. Contemporary approaches to gifted education can advance the goals of equity and school integration. In short, they can be a means through which schools serve a more diverse student population. This is poss…
How You Identify Determines Who You Identify
This study investigates the impact of variation in gifted student identification systems on the size, equity, and academic profiles of identified students. Utilizing data from 40,834 students across 519 elementary schools in seven districts, we modeled 64 hypothetical systems, focusing on measures (ability test scores, cognitive scores, and teacher ratings), norms (district and building), cut-off levels (5% and 10%), and data point combinations. …
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