This report discusses the National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP) and the National Achievement Scholarship Program (NASP) for 1968-69 in terms of student participation, awards made, and sponsor participation. Two types of Merit scholarships were awarded: scholarships renewable for up to 4 years of college, which are underwritten by sponsors in…

Sixteen women enrolled in Arts and Science departmental honors and ten women eligible, but not enrolled in the honors program, were given the Omnibus Personality Inventory, Form F, and a short questionnaire to determine if there were differences in personality traits between the two groups. No significant differences were found on a t-test to…

Dimensions of David's alienation syndrome (pessimism, distrust, anxiety, egocentricity and resentment) significantly dichotomized High and Low Academic Achievers among both Bright and Superior Mental Ability groups of upper middle class male adolescents. Five independent projective and objective measures of the alienation syndrome were employed…

The report (in working draft form) of the Connecticut Task Force on Evaluation of Programs for the Gifted and Talented examines evaluation issues of product, process, and presage and provides samples of nonstandardized evaluation instruments being used in 21 local Connecticut gifted programs. Product evaluation is seen to focus on student…

Presented is Florida's state resource manual for gifted child education. Noted are the history and philosophy of the gifted child program, and offered is a profile of a typical gifted and talented youth. Identification of gifted and talented youth is discussed, and suggested is a process format using information gained from both cognitive and…

Presented is a summary evaluation of the first (1973) summer Leadership Training Institute (LTI) to encourage the development of state plans for the education of the gifted and talented. It is said that the 2-week institute provided the 79 participants with guidelines for developing a state plan, the benefit of colleagues' experience in setting up…

Proposed is a program to encourage 100 gifted secondary students in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to initiate and carry out educational projects on an individual basis, to be funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III. Provided are statistical data on the general project, budget, pupil population, program staff, (more than 200…

The pilot edition of the curriculum guide for elementary gifted education of the Cranston, Rhode Island, school department offers a resource framework for the presentation of academic material while providing for individual instruction and initiative. The curriculum funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act offers…

The term elite university refers to that institution that attracts a student body of exceptional capacity or at least a large proportion of students of outstanding intellectual ability. The elite university is essentially a fragile institution, vulnerable to political pressures, research problems, financial needs, federal support, and enrollment…

Listed are terms relevant to the indexing of professional materials in the field of exceptional child education. Entries are approved descriptors appearing in the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors" used by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses, and were selected on the basis of particular need to the…

Listed in the bibliography, one of a series of over 50 similar bibliographies on exceptional (both handicapped and gifted) children, are 88 references concerning counseling particularly as it is employed with exceptional children, and psychotherapy (including group therapy) particularly in reference to emotionally disturbed children. Entries,…

To investigate whether there are significant numbers of academically talented students in disadvantaged populations (black and non-black) who do not pursue a higher education, 28,000 National Merit Scholar Qualifying Test participants were administered a questionnaire. The sample was divided into 72 subgroups formed on the basis of race (black or…

Despite the fact that the cost of a college education can be high, over 60% of high school graduates now enter some type of formal post-high school academic program. To find out what financial sources students use to pay for their college education, 28,800 National Merit Scholar Qualifying Test participants were administered a questionnaire. The…

Prepared for the use of schools in North Carolina, the manual discusses the use of itinerant resource teachers in the educational program for gifted children. Although pertaining primarily to the gifted and talented program on the elementary and junior high levels, the manual could be adapted to the senior high program also. Discussion of the…

A program to facilitate instruction for mathematically and scientifically gifted junior high students was described. Compared were nine educational alternatives for the gifted such as homogeneous grouping and early admission to college in terms of educational goals such as allowing for individual differences. Thirty-five scorers in a science fair…