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Academic acceleration is the advancement of gifted students in subjects at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum. Because it provides students with level-appropriate material, academic acceleration has been described as a "fundamental need" for gifted students. Although the bulk of educational research on academic acceleration has been within the United States, the practice occurs worldwide. ==Impact== Well-administered academic acceleration programs have been generally found to be highly beneficial to students. Effective administration involves ensuring student readiness, both academic and emotional, and providing necessary support and resources. Cohort acceleration programs, in which a number of students are accelerated together at the same time, are often especially effective. However, acceleration programs often face difficulty due to many teachers, administrators and parents being skeptical of the benefits of acceleration. Adults who have experienced acceleration themselves, however, tend to be very well-disposed to the practice. The influential 2004 U.S. report ''A Nation Deceived'' articulated 20 benefits of academic acceleration, which can be further distilled into four key points: # Academic acceleration provides greater benefits than any approach, such as differentiated instruction or enrichment. # Research has provided no evidence of social or emotional maladjustment due to acceleration. # Academic acceleration contributes to meeting a gifted student's social and emotional needs by providing a better-matched peer group and removing them from a difficult social environment. # Failure to accelerate a student who is able to accelerate is likely to have adverse effects on motivation and productivity, and may even lead to dropping out. The 2015 follow-up to that report, A Nation Empowered, highlights the research that has occurred over the past decade, and provides further evidence that academic acceleration, when applied correctly, can be highly beneficial for gifted students. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「academic acceleration」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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