Reported was a project which aimed at familiarizing gifted students (sixth, seventh, and eighth graders) and their parents with higher educational facilities through campus visits to university facilities and through informative sessions on admissions procedures and scholarships. (GW)

Advocates a thematic union of readings, essay topic, music and art to expose gifted students to the great thinkers of the past and present, and to make them aware of the limitless range of literature as well as to the effectiveness of different media. Gives examples of themes. (RB)

Elitism" is the author's term for avoiding needless pushing of young men and women beyond their levels of intellectual endurance and interest. (Editor/MB)

Paper presented at 18th Annual Convention of the National Association for Gifted Children, Chicago, Illinois, May 7, 1971. (CB)

Reviews research on creativity and urges mathematics educators to reconsider some of their standard practices in identification and cultivation of creative mathematical talent. (CP)

The Class Activities Questionnaire, designed to measure both cognitive and affective emphases in the classroom via student perceptions, is developed and used to evaluate the Illinois Gifted Program. (DG)

Paper contains research from author's doctoral thesis. (JM)

A model for viewing adolescent psychosocial development is outlined and used as a framework for reviewing literature. The model assumes that basic changes in adolescents' biological, cognitive, and social capacities reciprocally interact with the social settings of the family, peer group, and school/work to influence transformations in six areas…