ASPECTS OF PROGRAMS FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ARE DISCUSSED, INCLUDING FACTORS IN IDENTIFYING PUPILS WITH SPECIAL ABILITIES, TYPES OF PROGRAMS WHICH PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF SPECIAL STUDENTS, AND PRACTICES USED TO CHALLENGE GIFTED PUPILS. SEVEN CASE STUDIES OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL ABILITIES WHO PROFITED FROM THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OFFERED THEM ARE…

METHODS FOR IDENTIFIYING ACADEMICALLY AND CREATIVELY TALENTED CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN OUR SCHOOLS ARE PRESENTED. INCLUDED IS THE ROLE OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING IN THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS--PARENT OBSERVATIONS, TEACHER OBSERVATIONS, PERMANENT SCHOOL RECORDS, AND SUCH STANDARDIZED TESTS AS INTELLIGENCE, APTITUDE, AND ACHIEVEMENT TESTS. THE NATIONAL…

Project IMPACT, a joint effort by public and private schools in Grand Forks (ND) to provide services to gifted elementary students, is described. Four project objectives are identified: to combine educational resources of public and private schools; to provide workshops and resources for teachers; to identify teachers suitable for teaching…

The document provides three lesson plans designed to introduce gifted children (8-10 years old) to a study of China. The plans are built around three stories which portray specific conditions of the Country; the plans are designed to develop specific understandings related to economic conditions caused by floods and droughts, the potential menaces…

Talented women were defined as college freshmen or sophomores having at least three years of high school mathematics and a mathematics ACT score of 27 or higher. The proposition that math anxiety would result in math avoidance when these talented women entered college was studied. The conclusion was that these talented women are generally not…

The document presents the final report of the Texas Regional Leadership Clusters Project, a program to increase public awareness of the needs of gifted and talented students, to encourage the development of exemplary programs, and to disseminate information about exemplary program activities. Initial sections cover project background, project…

Summarized are the findings from a 1977 survey to identify current policies, resources, and services for the education of gifted and talented children in all 50 states and U.S. territories, conducted by the Council for Exceptional Children for the Office of Education's Office of Gifted and Talented. Included in the section on the survey's history…

The author reviews the literature and offers recommendations regarding the measurement and identification of creative potential. The assessment of creative thinking in measures of intellectual ability is discussed, and various definitions of creativity are cited. Measurement problems are identified and several creativity measures (especially the…

To determine if creative behavior could be developed in adolescents, a longitudinal (three year) evaluation of the Living Arts Program (held in the Dayton, Ohio schools) was conducted. An experimental group of 188 eighth, ninth, and tenth graders and a matched control group were compared with analysis by sex. The experimental group had the…

A questionnaire was sent to music administrators at 275 institutions of higher education that are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music and responses have revealed an inconsistency in music admission practices. The predominant policy combines music and academic requirements, but some institutions have separate music --or only…

A preliminary study is reported which attempted to define gifted rapid readers, authenticate the performances of three subjects who were designated as gifted rapid readers, and explore the relationship of a subject's ability to perceive print eidetically and to read and/or skim. Volunteer subjects were a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines, a…

This study was concerned with an investigation of artistic talent measures, the identification of artistic talent, and an examination of the relationship of organizational characteristics to artistic performance. The predictor instrument used was a specially constructed questionnaire made up of multiple choice biographical items and selected…

In 1951, 240 high school students with great academic promise interrupted their high school careers after completion of the 10th grade in order to enter college through an early admissions program. This document presents a follow-up study of these students, 213 of whom were males, and 252 other students who entered college in the conventional…

This document is a learning packet for differentiated staffing. Chapters include behavioral objectives of differentiated staffing, a learning packet, pre-assessment instruments, differentiated staffing assumptions, factors to be considered in a differentiated staffing program, a differentiated staffing definition, differentiated staffing models,…

A paradigm for the identification and development of giftedness is offered. (DB)