The importance of teacher education is stressed, and two models for teacher education in Israel, one for teachers of gifted children in an urban environment and the other for training teachers of culturally different children, are offered. The teachers of gifted children were provided with a theory and practice course, a workshop, and practical…

A study explored: (1) the possibility that imagination and imagery in young children can be developed by systematic practice; and (2) the extent to which the development of imagination and imagery affects other cognitive abilities, such as classification, seriation, and conservation. Concepts of imagery and operation schemes were derived from…

To assist low achieving students in the mastery of instructional objectives in major subject areas, the Ministry of Education of Israel published definitions of Minimum Achievement Requirements (MAR) for specific subjects at all grade levels. To examine the feasibility of the MAR approach and to determine whether it contributed to the attainment…

Informal and formal programing for gifted children in grades 4 through 12 in Israel are described. After school and summer enrichment programs, special classes and special schools for the gifted are discussed; and a number of programs for gifted children from disadvantaged backgrounds are presented. The author reports on her own research studies…

The relationship among various characteristics of evaluation studies and their overall quality was studied using all of the evaluation studies (N=366) conducted in Israel over 30 years on special projects for disadvantaged students at the elementary school level. The following variables were defined to describe each study: (1) evaluation…