The section on summer programs for the gifted includes a directory of 62 programs and eight brief articles on independent learning; Project IDEA, a psychomotor program; miscellaneous offerings; The College Academy, Framingham College, MA; The College for Kids Project, IL; environmental education; an animal behavior course; and a summer academy.…

The Revolving Door Identification Model (RDIM), a resource room program which assumes that giftedness is both topical and temporal in nature, offers a systematic approach to identification of and programing for gifted students. (Author/SB)

Standardized test instruments inherently and systematically impose limitations on experiential-cognitive relevance, especially in reinforcing the convenient separation of individual aptitudes from the total development and socialization of a child. (Author/IRT)

Among the findings were that the number of administrators receiving in-service training was relatively low, that programs emphasized identification in the areas of general intellectual ability and specific academic aptitude over other areas of giftedness, and that generally more districts identified children as gifted in the middle grades.…

The author provides information on organizing a parent support group for parents of gifted children to share problems and plan appropriate educational opportunities for their children. Suggestions are made for making contacts, developing the group structure, and ensuring the group's success. (SBH)

The need for developing a program stressing leadership skills among gifted, talented, and creative school children is considered and aspects of such a program are discussed. (PHR)

A state of the art survey indicated that all but five states had gifted/talented programs, the majority had a specific person responsible for gifted/talented education programs, and 24 states increased budgets while six cut back in their gifted/talented programs from 1976-1977 to 1978-1979 school years. (CL)

The article comments critically on a previous article entitled "A Quota System for Gifted Minority Children: A Viable Solution." Some methodological considerations of that study are briefly discussed, focusing on identification and screening procedures. (DLS)

Research related to psycholinguistics, language, and creativity is reviewed and found to be inadequate in defining reading. A definition of giftedness is suggested to cover a person who makes the most sense out of the world at any given moment in time within any given culture. (CL)

Analysis of an identification procedure in which teachers, counselors, and principals nominated gifted students from 168 second graders indicated that nominations were highly inaccurate when judged against a standardized test as criterion. However, some improvement occurred when a screening test was used to establish cutoff scores. (Author/CL)

Among findings of the study involving 278 contestants (seventh graders) from the 1976-77 Mathematics Talent Search conducted by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth was that the Mathematics Usage and Natural Sciences Readings tests of the American College Test battery have adequate ceiling and floor for this group. (SBH)

An interview with the director of the Office of Gifted and Talented in the Department of Education, Harold C. Lyon, considers such topics as trends in the education of the gifted, growth in state consultants, myths concerning the gifted, and the role of parents. (CL)

The Governor's School of North Carolina (West) offers a six-week summer program designed to develop creativity in gifted high school students. (SBH)

The final part of an article on the process of identifying gifted and talented children presents data and discusses implications of the use of the Guidance Institute for Talented Students' Screening Instrument (GIFTS). (For Parts 1 and 2, see EJ 216 146 and EJ 221 686.) (PHR)

The author describes the role of minicourses, in-depth study sessions of short duration for gifted and talented students in elementary and secondary education. Examples of successful minicourses from around the U.S. are cited, and the implications for minicourses of gifted characteristics (such as curiosity, flexibility and decision making…