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Pyryt, Michael C. – Understanding Our Gifted, 1999
This article explores the current trend to dismiss general intelligence in favor of multiple intelligences in identifying gifted students. Advantages of the IQ test in identifying exceptionally gifted students who have unique educational and socio-emotional needs and the curricular implications of the general intelligence focus are discussed.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Gross, Miraca U. M. – Understanding Our Gifted, 2002
A study of 700 children (ages 5-12) investigated whether children's conceptions of and expectations of friendship are determined by chronological age or by mental age. Results found children of differing intellectual abilities pass through the five conception stages of friendship at different ages and at different rates. (Contains 4 references.)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Gross, Miraca U.M. – Understanding Our Gifted, 2003
This article emphasizes the importance of providing appropriate services to meet the needs of individual gifted students and the need to first diagnose the level of giftedness to administer the right "therapeutic dose." A chart is provided that defines levels of intellectual giftedness by IQ ranges and by prevalence. (Contains 5…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
