Results indicated that counselors using cumulative records, counselors who conducted interviews, and students themselves could usually agree in their independent judgments concerning the value hierarchies of the students. Implications for school counselor practice are presented. (Author)

Suggests that shortening the time required for administering a reading test might provide more useful screening, diagnostic and predictive information for students of diverse abilities. Bibliography. (MD)

Describes an experimental study attempting to construct a unified school mathematics curriculum for grades seven through twelve. Study was initiated in 1965 and is to be a six-year study. The total program includes, in the following order, syllabus writing, conferences, writing of experimental textbook, education of classroom teachers, pilot class…

Based on a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association (41st, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1969).

A computer curriculum including literacy and programing skills is viewed as an example of a program which can easily provide both acceleration of the rate of learning and enrichment through development of higher-level thinking skills. A program used with fifth through eighth grade children in Tempe, Arizona is described. (MP)

Suggests what blackboard graffiti reveals about bright students. (MM)

The ability for high future performance in English, French, Physics, and Mathematics was examined in 13-year-old students in 11 British comprehensive schools. Among results are that most high performers on 0-level examinations were also nominated by subject teachers as high performers. (Author/MC)

Describes Miami-Dade Community College's Emphasis on Excellence program, which offers high ability students scholarships, honors classes, seminars with distinguished visiting professors, opportunities for program acceleration, cultural events, creative activities, and and special services and recognition. Highlights the program's components and…

Describes the Technical Scholar Program which recruits top high school students for demanding technical careers. Besides giving gifted students an opportunity to get paid for work related to their studies at Greenville Technical College, some employers offer scholarships for advanced education to top technical scholars. (JOW)

Alternative identification and instructional procedures are discussed. Instructors are warned against assuming an equivalence between the quantity of mathematical work a child demonstrates and the quality of that child's thinking. A need to integrate qualitative information is seen. Two types of activities for gifted pupils are detailed. (MP)

Seven applications problems are presented for gifted students to solve by writing microcomputer programs. (MNS)

Offers suggestions for identifying and instructing the verbally gifted. (JL)

Describes the accumulated research evidence on the adult vocational achievements and satisfactions observed in the lives of people identified as gifted during their school years to identify early experiences frequently associated with these achievements and satisfactions. (Author/CT)

Compared intellectually gifted children and controls on their ability to name and classify words and pictures of high or low frequency. High IQ children had shorter response latencies than other children and also showed no word frequency effects in the word naming tasks. (Author)

Presents a plan for compacting and streamlining the regular curriculum in order to relieve gifted students of the boredom that often results from unchallenging work and to provide the time gifted students need to pursue acceleration and enrichment activities after prerequisite competencies have been mastered. (Author/RH)