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Peer reviewedKerr, Barbara A.; Colangelo, Nicholas – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1988
Compared choices of college majors, extracurricular plans, and service desires of high school students, including highly talented (N=1,272), moderately talented (N=31,668), and high average students (N=44,011). Found academically talented students narrow in choices of majors but broad in extracurricular interests. Contends talented students are…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Career Counseling, College Bound Students, Counseling Services
Peer reviewedRavaglia, Raymond; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1995
This report details results of providing gifted and talented middle school and early high school students with computer-based advanced placement courses in mathematics and physics. Three such groups in the Education Program for Gifted Youth at Stanford University (California) were followed. Results support acceleration for such students and the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement
Peer reviewedHolton, Derek – Mathematics Teacher, 1995
Discusses a program in New Zealand to assist high school students who have an aptitude for mathematics. Uses the philosophy of extension and enrichment rather than acceleration and has a teaching emphasis of problem solving and the methodology of the research mathematician. (MKR)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Curriculum Enrichment, Demonstration Programs, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKerr, Barbara; And Others – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1992
Analyzed data tape for all students scoring in 95th percentile and above on American College Test (ACT) composite scores in spring of 1988. From this data, profiled approximately 3,545 minority students. Examined relationship of specific minority group membership and gender, postsecondary educational plans, career interests, needs for services,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Career Choice, Extracurricular Activities
Robinson, Nancy M.; Noble, Kathleen D. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1992
A variety of accelerative options for gifted high school students is described, including part-time college programs and full-time early entrance programs. The University of Washington's Transition School and Early Entrance Program is presented as an option for teenagers to enter university without attending high school at all. (DB)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Age Grade Placement, College School Cooperation
Whitman, Mark W.; Moon, Sidney M. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
An inquiry-based high school science class was developed to create a learning environment that would facilitate the development of scientific talent in students in a comprehensive high school. The class was designed to motivate students to pursue a sophisticated, substantial, independent scientific investigation over 2-3 years. (JDD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Experiential Learning, High Schools, Inquiry
Peer reviewedClementson, John J.; Wenger, Laurie – Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1998
Through interviews and essays, nearly 200 high-school-senior scholarship finalists described changes they would make in their schools if given the chance. Students expressed a need for more voice and more choice in the areas of academic quality, power/control/trust mechanisms, equity issues, and in building a sense of community. (MKA)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Administrator Role, Curriculum Enrichment, Discipline Policy
Peer reviewedThompson, Sheryl – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1998
A teacher of an advanced placement English class of over-stressed, over-busy, and rebellious gifted seniors describes how she used Kafka's "Metamorphosis" to help them adjust to this transitional period in their lives while keeping all reading and assignments within the class period. (DB)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement Programs, Bibliotherapy
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Direct linkAmini, Marzieh – International Education Journal, 2005
Using the Student Life Stress Inventory and the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, stressors and reactions to stressors were identified in gifted high school students and compared with non-gifted students. Altogether, 340 boys and girls (156 gifted and 184 non-gifted students) from four high schools in Shiraz (two high schools for gifted and two…
Descriptors: High Schools, Academically Gifted, Stress Variables, Measures (Individuals)
Helmandollar, Ben – 1990
A project identified students gifted and talented in the arts to participate in a Roanoke (Virginia) County Schools program to develop welding, carpentry, masonry, and metal working skills essential in the production of heroic scale three-dimensional art forms. A steering committee identified nine gifted students from four area high schools. The…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academically Gifted, Art Education, Art Products
Brewbaker, James M. – 1991
Columbus (Georgia) College's Challenge Squared program consists of three 2-week enrichment day camps for gifted students in grades 5 through 10. In past years, students have worked with an artist to create local history murals and have written and produced video plays in cooperation with a media specialist. Most recently, students were involved in…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Childrens Literature, Enrichment, High Schools
Gaylord, Thomas A.; Kaul, Gitanjali – 1989
Despite efforts by educators, full participation by Alaska native students in the state's colleges and universities has not yet been achieved. Alaska Natives are the state's only racial group that is underrepresented in enrollments at the University of Alaska (UA). This report examines the contribution of the Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academically Gifted, Alaska Natives, College Bound Students
Janesick, Valerie J. – 1989
A qualitative evaluation related to the creation of a Regional High School of Excellence (RHSE) in upstate New York is described. The focus is on a summer pilot study of the RHSE conducted while the continuation of the project was jeopardized by proposed budget cuts. The stages of development, problems involved in passing the proposal through the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Educational Assessment, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods
KEENAN, DOROTHY MAIE – 1963
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUPERIOR STUDENT AND RECOMMENDED PRACTICES FOR WORKING WITH HER ARE DISCUSSED. BECAUSE DIFFERENCE IN INTELLECTUAL ABILITY IS MORE THAN JUST AN INCREASED LEARNING RATE, WORKING WITH A SUPERIOR STUDENT IMPLIES A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SIMPLY GIVING HER MORE TO DO. MANY SUPERIOR STUDENTS ARE ADVANCED IN SEVERAL WAYS, ABLE TO…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration, Enrichment Activities, High Schools
Hedin, John T. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1988
The Research Apprentice Program for Minority High School Students is a summer program of the University of Vermont which recruits academically outstanding minority students to study with internationally recognized scientists and to participate in research projects. The selection process and the benefits to both students and the university are…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Apprenticeships, College Programs, Enrichment Activities
