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  • Comments on an article by Françoys Gagné (see record 2004-22507-002) on the Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT). We appreciate the opportunity to respond to Gagné's interesting paper. In a theory of such large scope, it is hard to know where to begin one's assessment. We have chosen to use Gagné's own criteria. At the close of his paper, Gagné lists four characteristics of the DMGT that make a very distinct and unique conception of giftedness and talent. We will respond to his first two characteristics. The first is that 'the DMGT stands alone in its clearly differentiated definitions of the field's two key concepts'. Although we agree that there has been confusion in how the field defines its terms, it is not clear to us how the distinction Gagné makes between natural abilities and systematically developed skills (of which gifts and talents are merely subsets) differs from the more commonly used labels of aptitude and achievement. Gagné's second criterion is that it is important to set prevalence estimates of giftedness and talent. Although setting the initial cut at 10 per cent seems completely arbitrary, the system of identifying many levels of giftedness has great potential value. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Comments on Sternberg's article on WICS as a model for giftedness (see record 2004-10570-002). The current authors focus on how to avoid selecting the "Denny's" of the world, referring to to a former gifted student who seemed primed for success-but then committed suicide. They argue that gifted education programmes, and especially those for younger students, should focus on finding all students of high ability and helping them develop their talents. In doing so we also hope the number of Denny's in the world might be reduced-not by excluding them from gifted programmes, but by including them and better preparing them to deal both with the positive and negative consequences of giftedness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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