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Peer reviewedAstin, Alexander W. – Change, 1985
Higher education's principal reason for being is seen as that of developing student talents. This premise suggests that a high-quality institution is one that maximizes the intellectual and personal development of its students. Student involvement is seen as the cornerstone of academic excellence. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Download full textBernal, Ernesto M. – 1994
This paper focuses on selection of students and curricular programming in gifted education. A current emphasis on selection rather than identification of able learners, including culturally diverse able learners, is noted, as are new understandings of the nature of giftedness, including: giftedness is more than high intelligence; giftedness is…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Educational Practices
Piirto, Jane – 1994
This textbook focuses on the development and education of talented children and adults. Part 1 considers who the gifted and talented are, in terms of personality aspects, intellectual competence, and specific talent in a domain. It presents a pyramidal framework of talent based on looking at adult talent and its precursors in childhood behavior.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Adult Development, Adult Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1988
In response to legislative mandate, the California Postsecondary Education Commission developed options for improving students' learning and development in college, including funding approaches designed to support these options. The commission's report summarizes a previous, related report and traces the origins of the current report from it,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, College Students, Educational Improvement
Flanagan, John C.; And Others – 1977
Project TALENT is a longitudinal survey designed to investigate the personal, educational, and experiential factors that promote or inhibit the development of human talents. Extensive data were obtained in 1960 from a sample of over 400,000 students in grades 9-12 in the United States. These data included cognitive skills of the individuals, their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, Cognitive Ability, Educational Experience
Flanagan, John C.; And Others – 1979
The Project TALENT Data Bank is a series of 55 machine-readable data files (MRDF) that resulted from a longitudinal study of selected United States high school students in grades 9 through 12 during 1960. Project TALENT was designed to investigate the personal, educational, and experiential factors that promote or inhibit the development of human…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, Cognitive Ability, College Curriculum
