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Frasier, Mary M. – 1991
This paper is intended to provide basic information to minority parents to support their involvement in the education of their gifted and talented children. The first section reviews federal and state (Georgia) definitions of gifted and talented as well as regulations concerning eligibility and retesting. The second section identifies typical…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Child Rearing, Definitions
Abelman, Robert – 1992
This monograph examines the relationship between intellectually gifted children and television and summarizes research on this subject, primarily conducted by Project KIDVID at Cleveland (Ohio) State University. After an introduction and discussion of the available scientific literature, research-supported facts and related questions are presented…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Age Differences, Child Rearing, Childrens Television
Missouri Univ., St. Louis. George Englemann Mathematics & Science Inst. – 1993
This publication is a comprehensive report on the George Engelmann Mathematics and Science Institute's Scholar Research Program (SRP) and its activities in 1993. The SRP provides high school students who have successfully completed an earlier Engelmann program the opportunity to experience and practice the active components of the scientific…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, High School Students
Collins, Norma, Comp.; Smith, Carl, Ed. – 1990
Originally developed as part of a project for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on reading programs for gifted readers is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes an overview of the project; a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Creative Activities, Critical Reading
Sawyer, David E. – 1987
The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (Fairfax County, Virginia) offers a comprehensive college preparatory program emphasizing the sciences, mathematics, and technology. The school serves students selected on the basis of aptitude and interest in the biological, physical, mathematical, and computer sciences, and who intend…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, High Schools, Magnet Schools, Mathematics Curriculum
Davis, Susan J.; Johns, Jerry L. – 1990
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans focuses on language arts activities for gifted middle school students. The 40 lesson plans in this book cover history, literature, mass media, reading, theater arts, thinking skills, and writing. The book includes an activities…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Activities, History Instruction
Prasad, Sarada; Murphy, Michael – 1988
The study reported in this document was conducted to facilitate strategic recruiting and marketing plans aimed at enhancing enrollments of academically superior students at the University of Wisconsin-Washington County (UWWC). Data on college choice criteria, perceptions, evaluations, information sources, "influentials," and choice outcomes…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Bound Students, College Choice, College Transfer Students
Wallace, Stuart Donald – 1984
This paper, presented at the "Ingenium 2000" conference, reports an attempt by the Natal Education Department in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, to design, develop, and implement a curriculum extension program to meet the intellectual and/or other needs of the exceptionally able, with no additional provision of staff or facilities. The…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Cognitive Processes
Byrne, Barbara M. – 1988
The paper identifies and addresses four methodological weaknesses common to most previous studies that have used LISREL confirmatory factor analysis to test for the factorial validity and invariance of a single measuring instrument. Specifically, the paper demonstrates the steps involved in: (1) conducting sensitivity analyses to determine a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education
Collins, Robert A.; Goldinher, Martin R. – 1984
The Elementary Gifted Program in the Dade County Public Schools (DCPS), Florida, serves approximately 2,000 elementary school students through 13 school-center programs and 12 recently implemented home-school-based programs. The school-center program involves transportation from the home school to the center two days per week, while the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Attitude Measures, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Southwest Virginia Community Coll., Richlands, VA. – 1985
An overview is provided of activities undertaken by Southwest Virginia Community College and the Russell County School System to provide a cost-effective delivery system for education/enrichment opportunities for gifted seniors in rural high schools that lack the "critical mass" to sustain individual on-site programs. The delivery system used an…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Computers
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 39 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) oral reading behaviors of early readers; (2) the effects of pictures and mode of presentation on the prose comprehension of third and fifth grade children of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1982
The college plans of 184 Maryland high school seniors who qualified as National Merit or National Achievement semifinalists were surveyed. Findings include the following: 58 percent of the semifinalists selected a private college and 18 percent chose a public college outside Maryland; 16 percent planned to attend Maryland public institutions, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Bound Students, College Choice, Enrollment Influences
Jackson, Rex – 1976
Data are presented concerning the numbers of students taking the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) and the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), and their mean scores for the period 1959 through l976. The implications of these results in relation to changes in the candidate group…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Problems
Snyder, Barbara, Ed. – 1982
The first issue of the Yearbook of the Ohio Modern Language Teachers Association presents the following articles and features: (1) "PR and the Language Program," by Nancy Humbach; (2) "Creative Play in Language Learning," by Carolann DeSelms; (3) "Foreign Language Projects for the Gifted Student," by Carol L. McKay and Martin D. McKay; (4) "A…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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