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EXPERTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE APPLICATION AND RELEVANCY OF
DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY TO ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES OF STUDY
by
Joanna L. Lauer
______________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Joanna L. Lauer
Object Description
| Title | Experts’ perspectives on the application and relevancy of Depth and Complexity to academic disciplines of study |
| Author | Lauer, Joanna L. |
| Author email | jblake99@aol.com; wahoos1@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-10 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-05-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kaplan, Sandra N. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Pensavalle, Margo Keim, Robert |
| Abstract | Depth and Complexity a set of prompts or concepts, represented an approach to curriculum differentiation for gifted students, that originated from a California Department of Education (1994) document describing educational needs for gifted students. Derived from three sources: (1) a review of Advance Placement curriculum and assessment, (2) a study of California Golden State Exam requirements, and (3) conventional wisdom about the accelerated needs of gifted students and the nature of academic disciplines, the prompts of Depth and Complexity have been integrated as a G.A.T.E. standard (CDE, 2005). While they were designed to create learning experiences that nurture excellence and develop expert-practice among gifted students, a study demonstrating how the 11 prompts of Depth and Complexity were relevant and applicable to academic disciplines had yet to be conducted. Findings from this study explored the concepts of Depth and Complexity and described their relationship to the academic disciplines.; This qualitative study of experts’ scholarly work provided content validity for the use of the concepts of Depth and Complexity as a viable approach to differentiate curriculum for gifted students. Experts across academic disciplines qualified for participation in this study based on a set of criteria: 1) they possessed a terminal academic degree, and 2) had at least 10 years of experience in a respective field. A multi-level interview protocol was used to gather information for analysis and yielded responses about the relationships of the concepts of Depth and Complexity to academic disciplines. The results of the study indicated that the concepts of Depth and Complexity were applicable for and relevant to academic experts and their disciplinary work. The significance of this study lies in the implication that the concepts of Depth and Complexity were therefore an appropriate and authentic means to facilitate content knowledge in the study of the disciplines for gifted students. |
| Keyword | gifted education; prompts; authentic learning; academic disciplines; Depth and Complexity; differentiation |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3102 |
| Rights | Lauer, Joanna L. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Lauer-3574 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Lauer-3574.pdf |
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| Full text | EXPERTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE APPLICATION AND RELEVANCY OF DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY TO ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES OF STUDY by Joanna L. Lauer ______________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2010 Copyright 2010 Joanna L. Lauer |
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