Esra Ayse Kaskaloglu
Associate Editor, 2003-2004
Esra.Kaskaloglu@asu.edu
Esra Kaskaloglu is a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Doctorate program with a focus on Special Education and an emphasis on Gifted and Talented Education in the College of Education at Arizona State University. Esra also obtained her Master of Art degree in Special Education from Arizona State University, and her Bachelor of Art degree in Child Health and Education (including early school education, special education / mild-moderate-severe disabilities, hearing, visual, and orthopedic impairment, learning disabilities, mental retardation, down-syndrome, and cerebral palsy) from Hacettepe University. Her research interests focus on gifted high school dropout prevention intervention procedure, educational and academic issues of gifted students, characteristics of gifted student dropouts, dropout prevention intervention for gifted and talented students, gifted children and ADHD behaviors, gifted children with special needs, aspects of their underachievement, literature development in early childhood education settings, and aspects of mathematics education in the early childhood education emphasizing in numbers and operations. She has a research paper published in the proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Education related to demographics and reasons for gifted student dropouts from high school, and factors affecting their underachievement. Esra has more than seven years of field experience as a teacher in pre-K and special education K-6, Turkish as a second language classes as well as a manager of a kindergarten. The awards that she has received include Certificate of Appreciation from Educational Attaché of Turkey, NY, Full Graduate Scholarship from Ministry of National Education, Turkey, and Award of Gratitude from the Director of the National Education, Turkey. She is a member of National Association for Gifted Children, American Educational Research Association, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Arizona Educational Research Association, and Association of Child Health and Education.
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