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focuses on the respective roles of cognitive ability and domain-specific knowledge in predicting exceptional performance developmental research on giftedness and its impact on later performance is briefly reviewed / an overview of research dealing with expertise in adulthood is provided / after a summary of the most important findings, theoretical assumptions and models concerning the process of acquiring expertise derived from this research with adults will be discussed in more detail / developmental research on knowledge acquisition based on research with children will be reviewed / the basic goal is to assess the generalizability of findings from work with adult experts to child samples and to broaden the perspective by adding data from prospective studies on the development of expertise to the predominantly retrospective inferences of acquisition processes derived from studies with adults / theoretical models are introduced that describe possible relationships between aptitude and the acquisition of expertise (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Discusses the influence of parents and families on fostering giftedness in children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create) individual differences within families [direct family and parental influences, use of language, interaction, imitation, roles, promotion of motivation, self-efficacy and motivation, improving motivation through feedback, social cognition] / evidence of family influence on giftedness from longitudinal research [family effects, gender, family progress, effects of pressure, disadvantage, being gifted and different] (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

the need for leadership education for all people will be explored, but particularly for gifted students / a fundamentally different interactive model and approach to leadership development will be suggested / this approach focuses on developing self leadership and building specific strategies such as productive thinking, feeling and behavioral strategies to influence ourselves and others / self leadership through modeling will be examined, with the focus on a leadership program (Texas Governor's Honors Program) as an example of how to develop leadership in adolescent gifted students an individual leader who represents interactive leadership, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, former president of the US and founder of the Citizen Ambassador Program will be discussed / the program of People to People International for several years developing personal leadership in teachers and administrators by planning and conducting leadership seminars in Russia, Hungary, China and Vietnam will be described (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

the paradigm of the special education of the gifted in the school years involves the classification of individual members of a limited sample as "gifted" and then their participation in a giftedness nurturing program / the identification of gifted individuals therefore takes a place of considerable importance for the establishment of programs, alongside program design / numerous measurement instruments are available which are well suited to gain a reliable informational basis for the decisions to be made [presents] an overview of recommendations on identification design made by experts on gifted education / these recommendations will be considered scientifically / the decision theoretical model of selection decisions will be presented / its properties and methodological consequences for practice will be discussed / insights on the construction of social judgments and group decision making will be presented (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

what has research told us about the identification and education of talented disadvantaged and culturally different children / what has been the nature of practices designed to find and educate them / what are some research initiatives and implications for future research and development activities / addresses these questions through a review of relevant research and practice focuses on characteristics of talented children in either or both groups and descriptions of conditions that affect their display of talents / focuses on issues and problems related to the use of tests to determine eligibility for talent development programs / [discusses] programs and curricula designed to address the educational needs of talented disadvantaged and culturally different children / provides suggestions for future research and development (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

provides a review of available program structures that can be used for the benefit of gifted individuals generally and deals with the tasks of setting goals, developing standards and writing plans appropriate to individual children's needs / strategies for developing and implementing individualized and differentiated curricula are discussed by presenting a variety of models which could be synthesized to develop curricula to meet the needs of gifted children with special focus on integrating human functions in the process / this includes ways of developing responsive learning environments, strategies for an integrating learning approach and ideas for extending the learning into the community / there is a discussion on the future role of research in this area (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Discusses methods for identifying and intervening with underachieving gifted students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create) underachieving gifted students / definitions of underachievement / identification of gifted underachievers / onset of underachievement: the preschool gifted underachievers [gifted children at risk of underachievement, unwanted children, rejected children, children of divorced parents, highly creative children, gifted girls, culturally different gifted students, children with learning disabilities] / causes and characteristics of underachievement / characteristics of underachievers [personality, need achievement and fear of failure, need affiliation, fear of success, behavioral characteristics, school related factors] / curriculum and teaching methods / intervention treatment of academic underachievement (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

describe, first, the rationale for conducting research with young, gifted children; second, some general questions about the development of young, gifted children concerning which reliable data have been accumulated; and third, the evidence available about family and group environments that may promote advanced development (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Discusses social and emotional deficits and difficulties in gifted children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create) definitional issues / what are the social-emotional needs of gifted children / needs and types of problems likely to occur [endogenous problems, internal dyssynchrony, peer relations, perfectionism, avoidance of risk-taking, excessive self-criticism, multipotentiality, existential depression, handicapped gifted, exogenous problems, expectancies by others, family relations, power struggles, enmeshment or confluence, mistaking the abilities for the child, sibling relations, parental understanding, change and location factors] / approaches to preventing or ameliorating problems [preventive guidance approaches, advocacy approaches, counseling and psychotherapy approaches] (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Discusses the role of developmental counseling in helping children cope with the problems and complexities that result from being gifted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create)

during the last few decades a change has been taking place in the concepts of giftedness and talent as they are featured in research literature / whereas until ten or fifteen years ago the field was dominated by one-dimensional giftedness concepts and corresponding IQ measurements, a large majority of more recent models are based on multidimensional or multifactorial psychometric concepts of intelligence international trends and topics of recent research on giftedness and talent / psychometric versus cognitive psychological paradigms: different tasks and functions / expert–novice paradigm, cross-cultural and other approaches in the field of giftedness research / desiderata in the research on giftedness and talent [deficiencies in the field of basic research, deficiencies in the field of applied research, desiderata in the research on gifted education, desiderata in the research on gifted identification and counseling, evaluation] / research on giftedness and responsibility (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Examines theories and research related to curriculum development for the gifted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create)

describe some trends in the research on giftedness in the countries of Middle East Europe as well as selected information concerning specific practical actions for the benefit of exceptionally gifted children / focus on the work of Polish scholars dealing with the subject of giftedness and discuss the aspects of this work which are also found in other countries of Middle East Europe educational developments in Poland / the issue of the gifted disabled (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

discusses the two aspects of theory and practice in the Netherlands: first, the nature of giftedness, and second, the practical effects of these considerations and definitions on the identification [and education] of gifted pupils in Dutch schools (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Summarizes the results of analyses of current trends in research on giftedness in contributions to the World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children (WCGT) Conferences published in 8 volumes of proceedings from 1975 to 1989. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create)

"Identification of Gifted and Talented Youth for Educational Programs" / John F. Feldhusen and Fathi A. Jarwan "Dynamic Assessment of Gifted Students" / Lannie Kanevsky "Early Identification of High Ability" / Christoph Perleth, Tanja Schatz and Frank J. Mönks "Prediction of Excellence in School, Higher Education, and Work" / Günter Trost (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)

review the research on three groups of extremely gifted individuals: (a) investigations of the childhood and adolescence of individuals who as adults developed as "exemplary producers"; (b) early studies of children whose cognitive development, as indicated by their academic achievements, seemed remarkably beyond the norm of their age; and (c) studies since the 1920s of children whose scores on tests of cognitive ability placed them in the exceptionally gifted range of IQ 160+, regardless of whether or not these students were able to achieve their remarkable potential / the primary focus, however, will be on this latter group of studies and will present the key research, from the last 70 years, on this population of students (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

provides a more or less representative picture of current research on giftedness and talent in Germany conducted at university and research institutes international state of giftedness research / deficits in the identification and support of talented children and adolescents / organisational measures or improving the structure of the support for the gifted in Germany / perspectives of an all-German responsibility for the future support of the gifted (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

begins by providing a general overview of the individual histories of research on the prodigy and the savant / combine discussion of the two phenomena by comparing examples of prodigious performance with ones of savant performance in two of the domains where both have been found: music and art / conclude with a speculative discussion of possible brain-based commonalities and differences serving as substrates for prodigy and savant capabilities (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

consider what is known about exceptional development in two art forms: the visual arts, and music / our primary but not exclusive source of evidence will be case studies of individuals who have shown unusual giftedness in these domains distinguish between individuals of normal or high intelligence who are gifted in a domain, and individuals who are gifted in one domain, but extremely retarded in all other areas / such pathological individuals are typically referred to as savants / determine what distinguishes the gifted individual of normal or high intelligence from the gifted individual who is in all other respects low-functioning (either retarded or autistic) distinguish between giftedness and creativity / a creative individual revolutionizes a domain of knowledge / there is no necessary link between giftedness and creativity / focus here on childhood giftedness, and make no assumptions that early signs of giftedness are necessarily predictive of adult creativity (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)