Neglecting gifted students: its impact on scholastic failure: perception from the families ( La no atención de las Altas Capacidades en la escuela y su relación con el fracaso escolar: percepción desde las familias )

Abstract

Aim: to determine whether there is a relationship between attention to the special educational needs of gifted children in public, private and charter schools (concertados) in Andalusia and scholastic failure, as perceived by families. The GITTECALTASCAPACIDADESCAPACIDADESPA questionnaire (α = .901), with 71 variables, was used in a sample of N = 454 families in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia with gifted children attending primary schools. Frequency and correlation analysis (Pearson type) were applied, obtaining p values < .001, along with crosses of variables through contingency tables and a regression analysis with the main hypothesis, together with ANOVA tests. The data obtained from the families indicate that inadequate attention to the special educational needs of gifted children is closely related to academic failure and disappointing experiences at school suffered by gifted children generate in them negative associations with academics.