FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES, GIFTED PUPILS WERE DEFINED AS THE UPPER 15 PERCENT OF THE SCHOOL POPULATION, INCLUDING THE INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR, THE TALENTED, THE SKILLFUL, AND THE ABLE LEARNER. MANY BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS WERE ON DISPLAY, INCLUDING "CURRICULUM ADJUSTMENTS FOR GIFTED CHILDREN," BY ELISE MARTENS, "THE CHALLENGE," A…

THE ENRICHMENT CENTER IS A SEPARATE FACILITY FOR GIFTED CHILDREN, WHO ATTEND FOR 1 DAY EACH WEEK DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. THE CURRICULUM IS FLEXIBLE, SO THAT CHANGES CAN BE MADE ACCORDING TO CURRENT EVENTS OR NEW SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS. THE FIRST CRITERION FOR SELECTION IS INTELLIGENCE, THE SECOND IS ACHIEVEMENT. THE AFOREMENTIONED CRITERIA ARE…

EXPERIMENTS WERE PERFORMED TO DETERMINED HOW MENTALLY RETARDED AND NORMAL SUBJECTS SYNTHESIZE STIMULI WITH RESPONSES. ALSO, RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE STIMULUS SYNTHESIS PROCESS, INTELLIGENCE, AND RATE OF LEARNING WERE STUDIED. DISCRIMINATION TASKS WERE USED WHICH REQUIRED SUBJECTS, NORMAL (COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL, AND GRADE SCHOOL ENROLLEES) AND…

A total career education program (for regular, academically advanced, and special elementary classes) is described and recommendations for program implementation and implications for replication in other settings are presented. It is explained that the program emphasizes such areas as decision making processes, self understanding, basic academic…

Because many of the students selected for participation in the University of South Carolina's College of Arts and Science Honors Program failed to attain the minimal grade point level required to remain in the program, the Counseling Bureau undertook an evaluative study to improve selection methods. The project aimed to find answers to 3…

In the fall of 1970, Hofstra University instituted a policy of exempting those students from English 1 and 2 who had demonstrated superior writing ability on achievement tests and in high school English courses. The question investigated was whether eliminating the "better" students from English 1 would have an effect on the grades…

This study provides migration trends for black and nonblack students who scored highest on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT). The nonblack sample of 51,096 consisted of all those who had obtained an NMSQT score of 137 or above -- about 2 percent of all 11th graders obtain scores this high. The black sample of 8,162 included…

Men who received Merit Scholarships in 1956 and 1957 were followed up in 1965 to determine their educational and career progress. Information was available for 984 of the 1,005 living male Scholars who won Merit awards during that period. Emphasis was placed on Scholars who entered 5 career fields: engineering, medicine, law, the social sciences,…

This document presents the results of a survey of high school seniors who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board, and who scored 600 or higher on the Verbal portion of the test (a small number of students were also included in the sample who scored between 500 and 599). Some of the highlights of the survey…

Personalized instructional programs for all students should be our most immediate objective. We cannot tolerate a politically based polarization of financial or human resources. The educational needs of all students overlap; so must their instructional programs. (Author)

The points and counterpoints presented in this article highlight a few of the many issues that stand in the way of a fully organized, sustained approach to school programming for the gifted. ( Author/AM)

Grade advancement is a legitimate and valuable method of meeting the needs of some academically gifted students and is available to every school system. Twelve practical guidelines (such as comprehensive psychological evaluation prior to placement and arranging all cases of grade advancement initially on a trial basis) are offered. (Author/DB)

The Teacher Education of Academically Gifted Students program model is intended to attract academically gifted college students to preservice teacher education. The proposed program is described. (Author/MT)

Twenty-five matched pairs of gifted and nongifted siblings were compared. Gifted students scored significantly higher on academic self-concept but did not differ from siblings on general self-esteem, and nongifted siblings scored higher on personality adjustment and endurance. (Author/DB)

Provides an annotated bibliography of 17 items which are related to computers and the gifted. Each entry includes author(s), title, source, and annotation. Topics include developing individual learning styles, an enrichment course for 9-year-olds, a computer mathematics course for parents and gifted children, and others. (JN)