For adolescent females, many influences create conflicts between femininity and realization of their giftedness. A study at two New Jersey Governor's Schools found that gifted girls endorse androgynous sex role characteristics. Governor's schools are encouraged to develop programs for gifted females in educational and career counseling, parent…

Two summer programs developed at Millersville University (Pennsylvania) are described: the Governor's School for Teaching, which seeks to attract outstanding high school students into teaching and acquaint them with instructional practices; and Improving Materials and Programs for the Academically and Creatively Talented (IMPACT), which promotes…

After participating in a 3-week individually paced precalculus or science course, 892 academically talented high school students were surveyed. Findings indicated that most students received credit or placement or both for their independent work. Placement/credit was related to Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, gender, type of school, and grade…

The Twice-Exceptional Child Project is a collaborative project of the Albuquerque (New Mexico) Public School System and the University of New Mexico to serve students who are gifted and have a mild-to-moderate handicapping condition. This article describes the project's training components, screening and identification procedures, curriculum, and…

Project First Step serves potentially gifted student populations at 10 inner-city schools in southeast San Diego (California), in a community comprised of Latino, African-American, and Indo-Chinese families. The program's three components include student readiness, teacher training, and parent involvement. (JDD)

Discusses how gifted students can experience the musical and pictorial magic of language through storytelling. Techniques and activities to be used in the general classroom or gifted pull-out programs are presented for sharing personal expression, the joy of language, and new styles of thought and expression. (CR)

A study involving 60 fifth-grade classrooms assessed student growth on integrated science process skills after being taught a 20-36 hour science unit based on the Integrated Curriculum Model developed for gifted learners. Results indicate small, but significant, gains for students in skills when compared to students not using the unit. (CR)

Early-entrance programs for academically gifted students aged 10 to 14 are offered at a number of colleges and universities. Admissions officials and experts on gifted children worry that some students are not mature enough, that their social development will suffer, and that they will experience social isolation. Highly selective colleges may be…

Comparison of 17 academically gifted and average intermediate grade students on the use of elaborative interrogation to improve reading comprehension found that gifted children had greater recall than average students prior to and one week after training, despite equivalent levels of strategy use. Results suggest the optimal level of strategy use…

This essay takes the form of a dialog between the human "Self" and a questioner and explores the nature of individual self-consciousness, the Freudian model of the self, the development of the self in early childhood, the importance of parents in the self's development, and special problems of self-awareness in gifted students. (DB)

Analyzes historical and contemporary cases where outstanding achievement resulted despite the lack of a strongly supportive environment. It concludes that personal strengths of the individual are the key factor in overcoming deficiencies in environmental support. Models of Feldman, Piirto, Tannenbaum, and Gagne are applied to the development of…

This qualitative study investigated the lived experience of depression in 10 gifted adolescents. Analysis of in-depth unstructured interviews revealed the gifted adolescent's absolute need for knowledge, for communion, and for expression. The gifted adolescent is at risk for depression when any or all of these needs are stymied. (Author/DB)

This study examined the long-term, post-high school outcomes of 80 adult-vocational-rehabilitation clients identified as having both high intellectual ability and learning disabilities. Subjects were generally functioning at levels consistent with their learning-disability deficits rather than at levels commensurate with their identified…

Examines various services available to gifted undergraduate students, including admission to college without high school graduation; credit for previous advanced work; identification during and after admission; advising by specialized personnel; career planning; and special programs (e.g., honors programs, admission to graduate courses,…

Describes an instructional unit for gifted students (ages 9 to 13) intended to help students understand and better balance efforts to meet the five basic human needs (physiological, belonging, power, freedom, and fun) postulated by William Glasser's control theory. Activities for each of the five units are outlined. (DB)