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  • Giftedness and talent are central for understanding and fostering human potential and represent important and exciting research topics. In recent years, numerous new findings on these topics have appeared, some of them as systematic overviews in the form of literature reviews or meta-analyses. This book summarizes important new findings, results, and conceptions. It presents information on the identification and assessment of giftedness and talent and on special fostering options and programs in particular. The book concentrates on the core basics for entering the subject area and provides references to further literature, especially on topics that receive less attention in this book but are nevertheless of great relevance. It is useful for training educators and psychologists, for example, within a seminar. The book begins with the basic question of what giftedness is and how it relates to exceptional performance. It discusses the role that intelligence and creativity play in giftedness, and presents basic knowledge about both constructs. Furthermore, regarding the connection between giftedness and exceptional performance, the book offers a critical perspective on the respective contributions of the differential approach of giftedness research and of expertise research. It discusses three pioneering longitudinal studies with gifted students: the Terman Study and the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth from the USA and the Marburg Gifted Project from Germany. The book describes the relationship between intelligence and academic achievement, and distinguishes between implicit and explicit theories of giftedness, and the harmony and the disharmony hypothesis. It deals with how gifted students can be identified. Intelligence tests continue to play a central role here, and one will learn what to consider when selecting intelligence tests for giftedness diagnostics and about the problem of ceiling effects in many of the available test procedures. Finally, the book examines supporting gifted students in school and early childhood education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

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