Associate Professor/Executive Director
Purdue University/Gifted Education Research & Resource Institute, Indiana
Nielsen Pereira (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Gifted, Creative, and Talented Studies at Purdue University. His research focuses on conceptual, contextual, and measurement issues in the identification of gifted and talented populations; design and assessment of learning in varied gifted and talented education contexts; and understanding gifted and talented student experiences in talent development programs. He has published 30 peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings, and 7 book chapters. He is one of the authors of the HOPE Teacher Rating Scale, an instrument designed to help teachers identify gifted students from underrepresented populations. He has received research grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the American Psychological Foundation, and was the recipient of the 2018 Hollingworth Award and the 2020 Early Scholar Award from NAGC and the 2019 Pathbreaker Award from AERA’s Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent special interest group. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Gifted and Talented International.
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Designing a Curriculum to Foster the Executive Functioning Skills of Middle-school Students
Friday, November 10, 2023
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
GT Coordinators in Public Schools: Are There Identifiable Biases by Gender, ELL Status, and SES?
Saturday, November 11, 2023
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
Psychometric Analysis of the HOPE Student Rating Scale to Identify Gifted Students (Poster 50)
Saturday, November 11, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
Dr. Martin D. Jenkins Scholars Presentation
Saturday, November 11, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
Research-to-practice Lightning Talks: The Latest Research That Practitioners Need to Know
Sunday, November 12, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time