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programs offered to gifted and talented in the formal education framework often do not cater for children with a special talent to the extent that this can be done in professional centers / while these kinds of nurturing are still neglected in many countries, they are quite popular in Israeli universities, science centers and museums / [provide] examples of out-of-school education which illustrate the possibilities of such opportunities [with 4th–12th graders] (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

definitions of giftedness (and talent) abound in the literature / so numerous are the definitions that Stankowski [1978] found it necessary to extract a more synthetic view through a classification system in five categories: (a) after the fact definitions focusing on adult prominent accomplishments, (b) IQ definitions specifying a particular threshold score, (c) talent definitions emphasizing outstanding performance in specific artistic and/or academic fields, (d) percentage definitions varying from a generous 20% or more to a strict 3% or less and (e) creativity definitions stressing original and productive accomplishments in a particular field Stankowski's system emphasizes the two general components implicitly or explicitly present in most definitions and models: (a) a "what is" statement pertaining to the core nature of the construct, its central or prototypical elements and (b) a "to whom" or "how many" statement about the size of the population targeted by the label / these two statements correspond to the usual distinction, in logic, between the comprehension of a concept and its extension; these two components will be examined separately (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

discuss effective strategies and programs for nurturing those gifted in science and technology lessons from the sociology of science / lessons from the psychology of eminence / lessons from science education / exemplary models for developing scientific talent / part-time college courses / recommendations for nurturing talents/gifts in science and technology (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

central questions to be tackled in this chapter are: (a) how predictable is excellent performance in school, university, and work / (b) what is the predictive value of a variety of information gathered in a variety of ways with respect to excellence in these three areas / focus on measures of ability as predictors, but information on other variables such as previous achievement, motivation, further personality variables, and environmental factors will also be taken into account (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

explores the role of theory in education for the gifted / the following questions guide this exploration: why does gifted education need a theory / what is a theory / what theories are extant for education of the gifted / what are the key questions or issues that a theory for education of the gifted must answer / what criteria might be used to analyze or develop a theory for education of the gifted / what is the relationship of theory to research and practice / what should be the scope and scale of a theory for gifted education / should a theory for gifted education be focused on intelligence, giftedness, or creativity / what are the contextual influences on theory development / how might the various theories be unified / what are the implications of theory for practice (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)

as the mainstreaming and inclusive education movement in education has gained momentum in the last two decades, there has been increasing concern with handicaps / during this same time period, there have also been tremendous gains in the relatively late-developing area of gifted education / [discusses how] the educational needs of certain subgroups of this population of children, i.e., the gifted handicapped, have been slow to receive recognition (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

examine the research evidence relating brain physiology and function to giftedness and intelligence / describe some of the measurement techniques and terminology that are associated with this area experimental methods in brain research [EEG, averaged evoked potentials, measurement of cerebral hemisphere lateralization, brain imaging] / information processing: the brain / ongoing brain activity / psychophysiology of personality (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

in this review, three sets of considerations on the development of morality [in gifted children] are presented: (1) moral behavior is based on specific cognitive abilities of rational analysis and discussion of actions concerning rights, duties and consequences (about life, affects, well-being of self and others); (2) moral behavior has roots in affect/emotion and on control and integration of drives and needs (in terms of empathy, care for others, task commitment); and (3) moral behavior needs to be nurtured by specific education which concerns both the cognitive and the emotional aspects (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

This decade has seen the emergence of two powerful concepts that influence curriculum and instruction: (1) learning style—the understanding that individuals master difficult information or skills in different ways and (2) multidimensional giftedness—the recognition that individuals may express their giftedness in different ways and at different levels. In addition, we are becoming increasingly aware of the unique impact of culture on intellectual and personal-social development, in general, and on giftedness and learning style, in particular. This book is designed to give teachers, counselors, gifted education specialists, and parents in each country an understanding of the specific learning style components that characterize gifted adolescents in their culture. It has particular value for teachers in the US in their efforts to individualize instruction for culturally diverse school populations. Part One [presents] the broad theoretical background of the concepts of giftedness and learning style. In Part Two, data on the learning styles of gifted and talented learners [Grades 7 through 12] in seven countries are presented in detail. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: preface)

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)

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)

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)

focus specifically on factors relating to educational/vocational choice, exceptional educational/vocational achievements and gender differences within the gifted population / our research . . . is also aimed at program experimentation and refinement of well-known educational interventions draw on the longitudinal findings from SMPY [Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth] to illustrate key antecedents to gender differences in the physical sciences / describe the design of our study and its theoretical framework / [discuss] gender differences in actual achievement among the mathematically talented and some empirical findings involving gender differences on familiar as well as underappreciated variables critical for choosing to excel in math/science domains (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

the primary question in developmental research on the gifted is no longer whether nature or nurture is the most basic, but rather what kind of interaction between the two occurs, and how does this influence development / in other words, what results from the interaction of specific individual traits and experiences in a given social and cultural environment / human development is generally regarded as a process of interaction between individual characteristics and environmental opportunities describe and discuss prevailing developmental theories / the diversity of definitions of giftedness will be outlined / it will become evident that some versions of the nature vs nurture controversy remain / existing and ongoing research demonstrates that only longitudinal studies can provide evidence about the relative contribution of nature and nurture to the development of gifted individuals / instructional and educational provisions will be discussed from a developmental perspective (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

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)

presents a pentagonal implicit theory of giftedness and a set of data testing the theory / discuss what an implicit theory is and why such theories are important / describe the pentagonal theory, specifying 5 conditions claimed to be individually necessary and jointly sufficient for a person to be labelled as gifted [excellence, rarity, productivity, demonstrability, and value criteria] / consider the relation of the pentagonal theory to explicit theories of giftedness / present data supporting the theory / discuss some implications of the pentagonal theory for gifted education (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

summarize many years of research on gifted individuals and on the creative process / focus is on the role of motivation in supporting the development of talent, and on how families facilitate the development of creative motivation / the conclusions are based primarily on 3 studies: (a) a longitudinal study of 290 artists begun in 1963 and continued to the present, which used tests, interviews, naturalistic observations and content analysis of creative work / (b) a 5-yr (1985–1990) longitudinal study of 210 talented teenagers [13–17 yrs old] which used questionnaires, interviews and the experience sampling method / (c) an ongoing study of 75 elderly creative individuals (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

discuss 5 issues that are important to keep in mind when attempting to account for exceptional achievement restricted range and test insensitivity [outstanding persons come from an extremely restricted range of ability] / theories of intelligence / difference in correlations across the range of ability [the structure of intellectual ability is not the same for all persons across the range of ability] / differences in heritability / achievement and intelligence are different (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

The outstandingly high abilities shown by certain individuals are a valuable human resource. Despite much talk of maximizing human potential, there have been few systematic efforts to increase the number of people capable of exceptional accomplishments, and many questions have yet to be answered fully. How does high ability arise, and how and why does it develop? How can early talents best be identified, and what conditions are most likely to facilitate the development of exceptional children into high-achieving adults? Are a child's commitment to improving his or her abilities and the encouragement of this by parents and teachers the cause or the result of the child's talents? Must one be a highly able child to become a highly able adult? Can any motivated, 'ordinary' individual who makes sufficient efforts at improvement reach heights of ability normally regarded as indicative of inherent exceptionality, or is a certain genetic constitution a prerequisite? Psychologists and educational specialists address these and other questions from a variety of perspectives. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)