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Peer reviewedVanTassel-Baska, Joyce – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1992
This article focuses on the importance of acceleration and grouping for gifted students in the context of school reform and recommends a set of decision-making guidelines for each issue including flexibility in entrance and exit requirements for courses, opportunities for telescoping and grade skipping, various forms of grouping, and independent…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Decision Making, Educational Change
Peer reviewedMills, Carol J.; Durden, William G. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1992
This article reviews the literature on cooperative learning and ability grouping for gifted students and concludes that grouping, in and of itself, does not affect achievement and that grouping decisions need to be based on educational choices according to students' individual needs. Schools are encouraged to provide both ability grouping and…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Peer reviewedFeldhusen, John F.; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1992
This article reviews the literature on grouping and argues for flexible grouping of students according to ability and achievement levels and maintains that grouping gifted students heterogeneously and providing cooperative learning leads to lowered achievement and motivation and poorer attitudes toward school for gifted students. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Cooperative Learning, Educational Policy
