Gifted students have unique educational needs. Although gifted students are as varied as other students in terms of their learning styles and preferences, all gifted learners have exhibited unusual performance or potential and they have distinctive characteristics, shared by most of these students, which require effective responses from educators.…

This document presents the results of a survey of high school seniors who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board, and who scored 600 or higher on the Verbal portion of the test (a small number of students were also included in the sample who scored between 500 and 599). Some of the highlights of the survey…

In 1951, 240 high school students with great academic promise interrupted their high school careers after completion of the 10th grade in order to enter college through an early admissions program. This document presents a follow-up study of these students, 213 of whom were males, and 252 other students who entered college in the conventional…

The purpose of this study was to do a follow-up of some of the graduates of the honors program at Indiana University, to explore their current activities and career involvements, and to obtain an assessment of the honors program that is mediated by intervening experience and a sense of perspective of the students' college years. Results of the…

In the fall of 1964, 4,288 students were nominated for participation in the 1st annual competition of the National Achievement Scholarship Program for outstanding Negro students. The students were divided into 3 groups--Scholars, Finalists and Commended. The highest competition status group, the Scholars, were awarded 4-year college scholarships…

Talent Search, which began operating in 1967, is one of the oldest of the federal programs designed to complement and encourage participation in the federal aid program for postsecondary education. At the time this report was prepared, 360 Talent Search projects throughout the country served about 320,000 participants. This report presents…

This report provides data and information relating to the Palmetto Fellows, LIFE, and SC HOPE Scholarships, and the Lottery Tuition Assistance and the SC Need-based Grant Programs. The primary purpose of the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship is to recognize the most academically talented high school seniors in South Carolina and to encourage them to…

Research findings at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, reveal that adequate data for meaningful research on talented women are unavailable. The findings also imply that (1) the most talented and creative college women apparently leave colleges in which they first enrolled before the end of four…

Describes a program that identifies gifted mathematics students and places them in an accelerated program. (IRT)

This document consists of the five consecutive issues of the journal "Imagine..." published during volume year 5. Typical journal articles cover teaching academically talented secondary students in the following focus areas: (1) biological science and medicine; (2) literature, language, and linguistics; (3) public service and politics; (4)…

Describes the characteristics of the gifted student, and urges special programs for them, to be carefully planned and delivered, to help them achieve academic excellence. (GA)

The gifted and talented constitute approximately five percent of the school-age population. In spite of the significant number and vast potential of gifted children, both government and society take only occasional interest in them. School systems need to identify and assess their gifted populations. (JN)

Forty-four male and 22 female students attending an early entrance to college program for talented students completed the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. Results indicate that these talented students are less mathematically anxious than typical college students. Females are more mathematically anxious than males, although the finding is not…

In this study, 1,500 men and women who were high school seniors in 1942 and 1943 and who competed in the first two annual Science Talent Searches for the Westinghouse Science Scholarship and Awards reported on their careers in 1957 in a brief questionnaire. Of these, 136 filled in a comprehensive supplementary questionnaire and were interviewed.…

The Duke University Talent Identification Program was initiated to identify verbally and mathematically precocious youngsters. This program is a 16-state effort not only to identify brillant students, but to follow and nuture their talent and assist in their educational development. (MLW)