The gap between the supply of creatively and intellectually able individuals in America and the demand for the services of highly talented people is constantly widening. Key to the development of provisions for gifted and talented children and youth at the State level will be State department of education personnel directly concerned with such…

Discussed talent search programs and their objectives, such as finding disadvantaged students who, with developmental assistance and financial support, could profit from additional education and training, and then counsel these students and help them find academic admission and occupational placement. (Author/RK)

Procedures for selecting artistically gifted students include nominations, portfolio reviews, creativity tests, biographical inventories, and class observation. Because objective assessments are hard to make, schools should use a variety of identification procedures to discover the truly talented. Examples of checklist forms are given. (CS)

The program for academically gifted and talented at Kellogg Elementary School in Michigan includes an open house for parents. Students teach workshops in activities like painting and weaving, and parents become the students. Parents learn how to encourage creativity and how to help their children learn. (CS)

Suggests improper application of standardized IQ tests may misidentify or underrefer thousands of intellectually gifted students each year. Presents 10 hazards that can bias IQ scores of gifted children and cautions psychological examiners and consumers of IQ test information to be aware of these hazards. (Author/AH)

Analysis of self-nominations on peer nomination forms for identifying classroom peers with superior abilities, completed by 391 students (grades 4 to 8), found frequent (41%) self-nominations. Self-nominations were influenced by type of ability assessed and correlated significantly with peer nominations but much less with teacher nominations.…

Discusses the need for development of female talent in China and examines the issues involved in this approach relative to trends in society. Calls for the initiating of female talent studies both as a means of revealing the laws governing the development of talented women and in creating theories to guide actions. (KO)

Describes the fierce competition and the selection process involved in gaining entrance into the Republic of Singapore's Art Elective Program. Discusses this curriculum's enriched and accelerated art program in which students gain a broader education and outlook. Activities include a live-in camp and an overseas trip for secondary students. (KO)

This paper describes how secondary teachers can use the Purdue Three-Stage Model as a framework for instruction that facilitates talent development in both heterogenous and homogenous classrooms. In the first two stages, students master the core content of a discipline and practice thinking creatively and critically about the content. In the third…

A culture-specific approach to identifying artistic talent in African-American students is presented, called Tactuality. Tactuality identifies four characteristics: emotional intensity, flexibility and open-endedness, holistic perception, and tactile sensitivity. A pilot test with 63 fourth graders resulted in statistical problems with validation.…

Responds to the initial article in this issue that proposes a set of 22 sequentially structured statements on the nature and origin of human abilities, gifts, and talents. Offers an alternative psychometric, quantitative perspective that sees gifts as broad, general analytic capabilities, and talents as specific, content-bound capabilities. (CR)

This case study describes the effects of an art program in raising the self-esteem of an artistically talented fifth-grade girl who remained in the regular classroom while her academically gifted classmates left for gifted programs. Each assignment in the art program, and her response to the activity, are described. (CR)

This paper describes the purpose and rationale of a "talent search" effort to identify gifted students through use of off-level testing. Three components are stressed: diagnosis and evaluation of domains and levels of talent; educational placement and guidance; and talent development opportunities. Research supporting the talent-search…

This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: the notion that intelligence could be measured, development of differentiated curriculum, the push to be the most powerful nation, appreciation for different intelligences, support for talent development, school reform efforts, and emerging understanding of how…

The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is celebrating 25 years of working with gifted children both in the USA and from throughout the world. Beginning in 1979, its mission has been to identify students of exceptional academic promise and to offer them distinctive and challenging educational opportunities. More than one…