Cognitive controls were isolated through factor analysis with 59 intermediate-grade gifted students, and three cognitive styles were defined by cluster analysis. The cognitive style labeled "strict percept-strict concept" was associated with greater facility in divergent thinking. Study findings support explanations of giftedness through…

The chemistry division of Tarleton State University (Texas) conducts a summer program for gifted/talented high-school students, to expose them to chemistry research and to college-level chemistry. Students complete chemistry course work and study with an organic chemist, an inorganic chemist, and a physical scientist on the university faculty.…

In developing a gifted education curriculum, the match between learner and curriculum must be considered, and a strategy for preparing the scope-and-sequence curriculum product should be determined. In the curriculum development process in Gary, Indiana, goals and sequential learning objectives were generated for each subject area by grade level…

Suggests methods for achieving creativity, including divergent and convergent thinking, in engineering education. Discusses creativity exercises, creating an atmosphere hospitable to creativity, and identifying the creatively gifted. (YP)

This study investigated issues affecting the achievement of girls talented in mathematics, focusing on those enrolled in the Advanced Placement program. Data from 1975, when boys were first admitted to all-girl classes, to 1985 are compared. Aptitude increased, achievement remained virtually unchanged, but GPAs for girls dropped. (MNS)

A program was designed to provide gifted preadolescent students with a better resistance to stress. Based on the stress inoculation procedure, the program's six sessions gradually exposed students to stressful situations through imagery techniques and role-playing, while helping them apply newly learned coping skills. (JDD)

A plan for schoolwide enrichment is presented as a model for promoting excellence in education and schoolwide change. Components of the plan include a nonelitist meaning of the term "gifted," a variety of important roles and responsibilities for all personnel involved, and creation of an atmosphere of excellence. (JDD)

Educators are urged to encourage gifted/talented students to teach themselves foreign languages. This essay discusses the lack of language requirements in schools, linguistic insensitivity or laziness shown by Americans, individuals' linguistic potential, goals of multilingual development, the appropriate time to introduce foreign languages, and…

Discusses the recent influx of highly talented immigrant engineers and engineering students into the United States. Identifies some of the opportunities available and benefits to the U.S. economy, along with some of the perceived and real problems posed by this trend. (TW)

A sample of unrecognized, artistically talented students was examined to determine whether they exhibit different characteristics from those of academically talented and average high school students. Results indicated that both males and females in the artistically talented sample differed significantly from the other groups on a number of…

A review of research indicates that early (including prenatal) continuous exposure to music not only positively influences children's advancing musical aptitude but also generates and increases children's abilities in some components of giftedness, such as problem solving, risk taking, and creativity. (Author/CB)

Sixty-five Hispanic students (average age 9.9 years) were evaluated for placement in a gifted/accelerated program. Of the five standardized tests administered, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) identified the highest proportion of gifted/accelerated students; the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test and reading achievement scores…

The reprinted 1978 article with a 1988 update advocates a combination of enrichment and acceleration to meet the needs of gifted youth. It presents a three-stage enrichment model to develop: (1) divergent and convergent thinking abilities; (2) creative thinking and problem solving strategies; and (3) independent learning abilities. (VW)

This discussion of the fifty-year history of the Bronx High School of Science focuses on its responses to challenges questioning its philosophy and method of admission and charges of elitism and isolation from the community. How the school met these challenges and still fulfilled its mission is considered significant for other schools of the…

The authors state that gifted education programs would serve a twofold purpose. First, high-powered programs would demonstrate that agriculture is more than farming. Further, in attracting superior students, agricultural education programs would recruit those students with the abilities needed to fill positions requiring such advanced technical…