On average, children who attend schools for gifted students have lower self-esteem than children of equal intelligence who attend regular schools with students of widely varying abilities. If we consider research about factors affecting youngsters' sense of self, we can explain this finding in which one of the following ways?
a. Children who attend gifted programs typically have assertive parents, and such parents tend to undermine their children's self-esteem.
b. Having a label of any kind—even the label "gifted"—tends to lower self-esteem.
c. Identifying a child as gifted requires an intensive evaluation, and evaluations inevitably lower self-esteem.
d. Children form their self-concepts in part by comparing their own performance to the performance of those around them.
D
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