This book provides an overview of leadership in grades 6-12. Drawing upon theories based on cognitive and affective leadership and the role of leadership in gifted education, it discusses leadership as it pertains to research projects, problem solving, interpersonal communication, and decision-making. The book offers strategies for curriculum…

This monograph provides a comprehensive, concise, and current overview of the law-- specifically, legislation, regulations, and published court/administrative decisions--relating to gifted education for K-12 students. For students whose legal rights are based solely on their gifted status, the law largely boils down to (a) varying state statutes…

This book offers teachers of all grades teaching/management strategies for providing gifted students in regular classes the enriched curriculum they need. Chapter 1 describes the learning and behavioral characteristics of gifted students, especially noting underserved groups such as gifted children from multicultural and low socioeconomic…

This report presents ways to identify the superior pupil and methods to provide for his needs. For the purposes of this report, superior pupils are defined as rapid learners in academic subjects. They are the pupils in the upper 20 percent in general intelligence whose abilities lend themselves readily to intellectual pursuits. This report…

Traditional mathematics curriculum is unsuitable for gifted children. Computing, statistics, operations research, and logic are suggested as suitable new topics. (MP)

Describes funded Projects: Mainstreaming (meets needs of handicapped students); Drownproofing (teaches self-survival skills in water); REAP (serves rural outstate schools of Minnesota); Promise (involves students in production of films, slides, transparencies, and other media); Ideas (serves gifted students in rural settings); and Explore…

The Young Scholars Program at The Ohio State University is a 6-year pre-collegiate intervention program designed to prepare academically talented, economically disadvantaged minority students for college education. This study describes the success of this effort to reshape the traditional presentation of agriculture. (Author/DKM)

Includes 22 articles that address the use of Canadian statistics in the classroom. Highlights include the Statistics Canada Web site; other Web resources; original sources; critical thinking; debating with talented and gifted students; teaching marketing; environmental resources; data management; social issues and values; math instruction; reading…

Examines educational needs of students who are learning disabled and gifted (LD/G), discussing their characteristics, problems encountered in working with them, referral and placement practices in place for them, and current instructional strategies. The paper notes that LD/G students need some special educational assistance to enable them to…

Describes a university/school collaboration that helped tailor a curriculum for gifted Brazilian elementary students. Analyzes stumbling blocks, discusses circumstances favoring the emergence of collaboration, and notes benefits (fuller integration of theory and practice in education and establishment of a policy to provide for differences in…

The effects of domain-specific and strategic knowledge on analogy performance were studied for 64 gifted and 64 non gifted sixth grade and high school students. Males (n=66) and females (n=62) performed comparably on almost all dependent measures. Implications for instruction and assessment of both types of knowledge are discussed. (SLD)

Examines predictor variables involved in the performance of 152 male and 143 female gifted high school juniors on the Scholastic Aptitude Test in mathematics (SAT-M). Concludes that males demonstrate greater visual-spatial ability which plays a dominant role in SAT-M performance. (FMW)

For 241 normal and 132 gifted fifth graders and 113 normal and 117 gifted seventh graders in Ottawa (Ontario), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses investigated the factorial validity of the Perceived Competence Scale for Children (PCSC). Overall, the PCSC demonstrated sound psychometric properties. (SLD)

A university-public school cooperative project (Project STREAM) in Wisconsin has been identifying sixth-grade minority students with potential for postsecondary education and providing them with systematic attention through middle and senior high school. Teachers and students have identified eight strategies as being particularly effective in the…

Studies gender differences in the U.S. achievement ideology for 48 gifted and 100 nongifted African-American fifth and sixth graders (59 males and 89 females) in an urban Ohio school district. Results indicate no differential determinants of underachievement by gender but show significant differences by gifted and nongifted academic programs. (SLD)