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US Department of Education, 2009
The Talent Search (TS) program is one of the federal TRIO programs, a group of eight outreach programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education that are designed to support and assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to attainment of a postbaccalaureate degree. (Contains 6…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Talent, Disadvantaged, Comparative Analysis
Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the grades 6-8 version of DISCOVER, a performance-based assessment, and investigate its effectiveness in identifying gifted minority students. Questions examined the alignment between DISCOVER and Gardner's (1983) theory of multiple intelligences (MI) and assessed gender and ethnic…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Minority Groups, Talent Identification, Academically Gifted