The Little Falls City School District's K-12 gifted and talented program is organized on three sequential levels. The elementary grades program is part of the nationally replicated Talents Unlimited Program based on Bloom's Taxonomy, and is taught by the regular classroom teacher to all students in a participating classroom. Students participate…

This research involved the observation and audio-recording of 30 ninth-grade mathematics students recommended as being outstanding by their mathematics teachers. Each student was presented with five different problem situations for which he or she was to make mathematical conjectures. During the interview, the students thought aloud and all of…

This paper points out that the puzzling nature of the evidence concerning the relationship between teaching experience and teaching performance is due in part to the research methodology used to study this relationship. Cross-sectional data reflects three different phenomena: learning by doing, teachers' academic excellence, and influence of the…

THE DOCUMENT CONSTITUTES A POLICY STATEMENT FOR USE IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS. HIGH ABILITY IS REGARDED AS INCLUSIVE AND IS MANIFESTED BY HIGH INTELLIGENCE, AND/OR CREATIVITY, LEADERSHIP, AND SKILLED PERFORMANCE IN MOTOR AREAS. TEACHERS AND COUNSELORS ARE ASSIGNED A KEY ROLE IN IDENTIFYING THE HIGHLY ABLE. STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE MOST…

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUMMER SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAMS (SSTP) FOR HIGH ABILITY SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WAS INVESTIGATED. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE USED IN A STUDY 3 YEARS AFTER COMPLETION OF THE PROGRAM TO COMPARE THE SUBSEQUENT ACADEMIC PROGRESS, CAREER CHOICES, AND SCIENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF SSTP PARTICIPANTS WITH THOSE OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE…

EXAMINED ARE THE EFFECTS OF SUMMER SCIENCE PROGRAMS ON PARTICIPANTS, THEIR HIGH SCHOOLS, THEIR FUTURE EDUCATIONAL PLANS AND CAREERS, AND THE HOST INSTITUTION. ESTABLISHED CRITERIA WERE USED TO SELECT 18 OF 147 PROGRAMS SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION IN 1960. ORIENTATION, CLASSROOM, AND RESEARCH PROGRAMS WERE INCLUDED IN THE SAMPLE.…

OVER A 3-YEAR PERIOD, THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED MANY FACETS OF THE ACHIEVEMENT, BEHAVIOR, AND INTERESTS OF GROUPS OF STUDENTS WHO BEGAN THE EXTRACURRICULAR STUDY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES. IN ADDITION, SEVERAL CONTROL GROUPS WERE STUDIED TO ALLOW COMPARISONS OF THE EFFECTS OF THIS LANGUAGE PROGRAM. IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT,…

Past inattention to teaching gifted students may in part be due to the problems of defining, identifying, and determining the characteristics of the gifted child. In this paper, gifted students may be defined as those whose reading achievement or reading potential is well above average. Standard measures of this achievement and potential coupled…

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…

Released time from classes for independent study by academically able high-school juniors and seniors is evaluated here after a four-year study. Concern was centered on the effects of this program on high school functioning and, later, on college records. Major hypotheses of the study were that: (1) independent reading groups would show greater…

This study concerns the development and preliminary evaluation of a series of "laboratory blocks" of correlated laboratory investigations which integrate traditional subject areas of physical science and introduce key areas of modern science. Concurrent with the development of laboratory blocks have been the design of an inexpensive set…

This study demonstrates that a population of high-achieving young women with sufficient motivation and ability for acceleration in science may be readily identified and that acceleration in science is practical for such a group. To test the effects of participation in a research-oriented multi-disciplinary college course (Research Introduction to…

This report presents the results of the Fall 1969 statewide survey of the post-high school plans of Florida high school seniors. The students were asked to fill out the instrument: Plans Beyond High School, which requested information of college bound students on the type of institution they planned to attend, whether they planned to go to an…

The enrollment of superior high school students in college credit courses at the junior college level is considered in this report. Useable responses to a questionnaire sent to 113 community-junior colleges in seven mid-American states were received from 62 of 84 public and 13 of 29 private institutions. Five states--Colorado, Iowa, Kansas,…

SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL SCIENCE MATERIALS FOR GIFTED PRIMARY STUDENTS WERE DEVELOPED AND USED WITH FIRST- AND SECOND-GRADE STUDENTS. UNITS ON ATOMIC STRUCTURE, THE NATURE OF MOLECULES, MEASUREMENT, AND MATHEMATICS WERE DEVELOPED, USED, EVALUATED, AND REVISED OVER A 2-YEAR PERIOD. LESSONS WERE PRESENTED THROUGH THE USE OF TAPE PLAYERS, ILLUSTRATIVE…