Compared to children with high-average and low-average intelligence quotients, 26 intermediate grade gifted children used fewer moves to solve a combinatorial problem-solving task and exhibited higher metacognitive knowledge on person and strategy variables. Qualitatively different intercorrelational patterns among problem-solving, metacognition,…

Investigation of the role of intellectual giftedness in influencing parents' perceptions and mediation of gifted (N=364) and non-gifted (N=386) fourth-graders' television viewing revealed that all parents exercised modest levels of intervention. However, students' intellectual giftedness did influence parents' perceptions of the possible impact of…

This study examined the self-perception and motivational orientation of 49 intellectually gifted fourth and seventh graders. Compared to controls, the gifted children perceived themselves as more scholastically competent, better behaved, but less athletically competent. Gifted girls perceived themselves as more scholastically competent than either…