Before playing a video game, 47 gifted second graders and 47 gifted fifth graders were instructed to adopt an evaluative, process, outcome, or no specific goal focus while playing. Older children showed better performance overall and their best performance when instructed to adopt an evaluative goal. Younger children showed their worst performance…

The internal/external frame of reference model was examined for 131 adolescents participating in a summer program for academically talented students. Results suggest that the model was useful in understanding the academic self-concept development of students, with no significant differences among students with strengths in mathematics, verbal…

In this case study, an 8-year-old, verbally gifted, struggling reader's difficult experiences at home and school are discussed, as well as the responses to the paradox of his being highly verbal yet failing at reading. Research findings on verbal giftedness and underachievement are presented. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Students enrolled in regular, special, or gifted education have much to offer society and should not be consigned to the quarantines of separate schooling, as in the case of "Plessy." Older tracking and assessment models have outlived their usefulness within the current context of a multicultural society. (Contains 20 references.) (MLH)

This collection of articles presents information on such issues as: selective colleges most preferred by African American students; the bidding war for gifted African American students; African American student progress in medical schools; the meager endowments of black colleges; the digital divide at black colleges; and why early decision…

Group interviews with 26 special education teachers, 25 general education teachers, 8 Chapter 1 teachers, and 15 teachers of the gifted revealed that the majority of teachers had strong negative feelings about inclusion. Teachers identified factors affecting the success of inclusion, including class size, resources, extent to which all students…

The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory was given to 156 early entrants at the University of North Texas. The inventory successfully identified 90% of students who subsequently had academic problems (based on first semester college grade point average). Successful and unsuccessful participants differed in concentration and attention, ability…

A survey of 204 parents of gifted students (ages 3-14) found a majority reported their child showed high potential in more than two talent domains. Twenty-seven percent of parents reported that their child's school offers services for special talents and 60 percent reported their child participates regularly in sports activities. (Contains five…

This article emphasizes the importance of documenting gifted education results to governing bodies such as state legislatures and school boards. It discusses three general issues of communication with decision-makers: being clear on intentions, being considerate of decision-makers, and providing useful information. Data gathering suggestions for…

This response to an article regarding the tension between talent development and personal growth in gifted education argues that dissociation of these two aspects is conditional, not a constant state of affairs. Contingencies and processes responsible for the dissociation are identified and ways to integrated these two perspectives are discussed.…

Two studies of gifted high school dropouts (n=3,854) found many dropouts were from low socioeconomic-status families and racial minority groups, had parents with low levels of education, and participated less in extracurricular activities. Dropout behavior was related to student's educational aspiration, pregnancy or child-rearing, gender, and…

Describes the DISCOVER assessment process, a method designed to identify gifted learners by documenting students' problem-solving abilities in several of Gardner's multiple intelligences, including spatial, mathematical, linguistic, intrapersonal, bodily kinesthetic, and interpersonal. Examples of problems presented to students in grades six…

This reprint of a previously published article describes a study that examined the relationship of six commonly held myths regarding ability grouping to educators' efforts to provide the best instructional programs for all students. The article is preceded by a commentary stressing the need for appropriate services. (Contains references.) (CR)

This reprint of an article on the positive experiences of parents who accelerated their gifted children is preceded by a commentary that highlights the important factors that need to be considered before a child is accelerated: academic preparation, school personnel support, and parents' understanding of the limitations of enrichment programs.…

This reprint of an article on early education of an exceptionally intellectually talented sister and brother is preceded by a commentary that stresses that many teachers and administrators fail to appreciate acceleration as part of the complement of options to be used with gifted students. (Contains 4 references.) (CR)