A Javits grant implemented statewide in Kentucky used innovative curriculum and team teaching to identify and serve middle school gifted students. Project components included interdisciplinary curriculum development, staff development, expanded provision of services, alternative methods for identifying middle school gifted students, and parent…

Presented are written materials developed through a research-through-service program to devise, test, and demonstrate procedures which schools can use to identify secondary level gifted and talented students in a variety of social and cultural settings; and, on the basis of the characteristics discovered during the identification process, to…

Early Assessment for Exceptional Potential of Young Minority and/or Economically Disadvantaged Students is a project which used portfolio assessment to identify exceptional potential in primary-level children and develop instructional plans. The project determined universal identifiers of exceptional potential and taught teachers to recognize them…

This report describes a model demonstration project in Upper Arlington, Ohio, schools which developed a multifactored approach to the identification of creative thinking ability. The project focused on determining the characteristics and needs of creatively gifted children in a process which included research-based activities, standardized and…

The Javits 7+ Gifted and Talented Program (Community School District 18, Brooklyn, New York) was designed to provide an opportunity for socioeconomically disadvantaged children to receive intensive school-based activities that would prepare them for gifted education programs. Teachers assessed students using Howard Gardner's concept of multiple…

Bucks County, Pennsylvania intermediate unit (IU) programs for the gifted are discussed in terms of Pennsylvania standards for the gifted, pupil selection methods, and IU services for the gifted and talented. Among topics covered in a section on program standards are guidelines for selecting gifted pupils (from kindergarten through the grades);…

A two-stage model for early identification and selection of gifted children in kindergarden through grade 3 was successfully developed for the Walker Full-time Gifted Program in the Flint, Michigan Community Schools. Using the Nominative Group Process of interactive decision-making, project participants, school administrators, school…

A three-pronged demonstration project carried on over a 4-year period in the area of education of the gifted is reported. The first phase described involves selected students from 75 secondary schools who began in ninth grade to visit the university laboratory 1 day each year for evaluation, counseling, and the chance to attend classes; also…