A Talent Identification Project (TIP) has been successful in selecting, motivating, and assisting high school juniors and seniors with disadvantaged backgrounds who have potential for careers in the health sciences. Increases in TIP contacts in rural counties and efforts to provide more opportunities for rural background students at the…

The article provides information concerning preschool gifted and talented children, including indicators of giftedness/talent, learning needs of gifted children, advantages/disadvantages of early intervention programs, availability of state funding to provide extra learning experiences, selection criteria for preschool programs, and sources of…

A discussion of education for gifted students in India reviews scholarship schemes to allow bright children to secure gifted services, national programs to identify creativity, and current developments in teacher education. (CL)

Five major steps in the identification of gifted and talented youth are discussed, and problems in each area are noted: (1) determination of program goals and types of gifted youth to be served; (2) nomination procedures; (3) assessment procedures; (4) individual differentiation; and (5) validation of the identification process. (CL)

The author considers factors in identifying gifted children and suggests that the best approach combines group and individual testing. He recommends use of the verbal, math, and standard written English forms of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and concludes by listing nine precautions for identification. (CL)

Principles in gifted identification are noted, and the contributions of such approaches as GIFT (Gift Inventory for Finding Creative Talent), GIFF I and II (Group Inventory For Finding Interests), and PRIDE (Preschool Interest Descriptor) are described. Following a synopsis of research on these creativity inventories, the article discusses their…

Continuing arguable issues on education of the gifted and talented are semantics, proportion of gifted, state of "giftedness," counterproductive jargon, politicization, philosophy, morality, and creativity. The field has achieved tolerant attitudes toward the gifted, greater understanding of identification, experience with materials and…

Uniformity of assessment in identifying gifted students should be replaced by a variety of measures to document the unique personal and learning characteristics as a basis for instruction. (CL)

Describes a program at Johns Hopkins University's Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth that relies on standardized tests to identify intellectually gifted students. The program offers these students opportunities to develop their mathematical and verbal abilities. (JOW)

The author describes the nature of music aptitudes of very young children and presents validity information which pertains to the Primary Measures of Music Audiation, a group test designed to identify musically gifted children and to diagnose the musical strengths and weaknesses of each young child. (SBH)

The article reviews approaches used in several states to identify students gifted in the performing arts. Specific instruments, such as C. Seashore's Measures of Musical Talents, as well as locally created instruments, peer nomination, and product evaluation are considered. (CL)

Discusses definitions of giftedness, including the use of talent as a more effective term for giftedness. Argues that the concept of giftedness is closely linked to general intelligence and is of limited usefulness in understanding and educating youth with special abilities, while talents represent special aptitudes that can be individually…