Development and Implementation of Inventories of Evaluating Science Gifted Education Programs - Centering Around SNU Science-gifted Education Center

Seoul National University has started science gifted education program since 1998, and asked for evaluating it. The inventories of evaluating for the observers, students, and teachers are developed based on the elements that gifted educators have insisted as gifted programs must have. Nine programs of the SNU Science-gifted Education Center have been checked using those inventories. The Objective of this evaluation is to conzrm whether the SNU Science-gifted Education program is reflecting science g ifted students abilities and their educational needs as well, or if it ll be able to achieve its goal of developing students maximum potential and foster future scientists as self-leading learners. It was found that these inventories for students, observers and teachers were useful in evaluating the science g fted education program. it is expected that checking programs step by step, finding which changes would be needed, correcting and complementing can build up bases of our county s gifted education growth in quality as well as in quantity.