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Direct linkShaughnessy, Michael F.; Ruf, Deborah – Gifted Education International, 2015
This article is an interview with award-winning author and gifted children consultant, Deborah Ruf, PhD. In the interview, Ruf emphasizes the importance of parental planning for gifted children's growth and development. She speaks to children's social, emotional, and cognitive abilities and needs as factors in developing a balanced plan.…
Descriptors: Gifted, Parenting Styles, Student Needs, Authors
Peer reviewedDunn, Linda W.; Corn, Anne L.; Morelock, Martha J. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2004
This investigation compared fantasy-proneness levels and IQ scores in gifted adolescents with primary talent areas in 1 of 4 domains: mathematics, computer science, creative writing, and chemistry. The Inventory of Childhood Memories and Imaginings: Children's Form (ICMIC; Myers, 1983) was used to assess fantasy-proneness. IQ scores were generated…
Descriptors: Investigations, Adolescents, Talent, Intelligence Tests
Download full textNedim Bal, Pervin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study aimed to examine the permanence of the effect of an Empathy Training Program, administered 8 months ago on gifted adolescents studying in 6th and 7th grades. The sample of this study consisted of 60 students with IQ scores of above 130 and studied in Enderun Gifted Children Center. Bryant's Empathy Scale for Children was administered to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empathy, Adolescents, Grade 6
Klein, Pnina S., Ed.; Tannenbaum, Abraham J., Ed. – 1992
This book reviews and summarizes recent research into the intellectual, emotional and creative development of young gifted children. An introductory section includes the following: "Early Signs of Giftedness: Research and Commentary" (Abraham Tannenbaum); "Creative Giftedness in Children" (Robert Sternberg and Todd Lubart); and "Cultural…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Creative Development
Al-Hroub, Anies – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2020
The main purpose of this research was to investigate empirically the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -- the third Jordanian version (hereinafter WISC-III-Jordan) profiles to analyze cognitive factors for 'twice-exceptional' (2E) children characterizing 'mathematical giftedness with learning disabilities (MG/LDs). The paper examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Gifted Disabled, Test Validity
Hasan, Melissa R – Parenting for High Potential, 2013
Melissa Hasan believes that Conceptual Physics saved her sanity. A seemingly unimportant metallurgical fact she learned in high school has made parenting her toddler possible on most days. The most important thing she learned in High School from Conceptual Physics, and Interpersonal Relationships was that what is rigid breaks. In high school, she…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Gifted, Coping
Mendaglio, Sal – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2014
In recent years, there have been attempts to diminish the privileged position held by the construct of intelligence. Made pre-eminent by such luminaries as Binet, Terman, and Spearman, recently traditional intelligence has been demoted to simply another variable. With the rise of multiple intelligence and emotional intelligence, traditional…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Theories
Ziegler, Albert; Ziegler, Albert; Stoeger, Heidrun – Roeper Review, 2012
Despite being plagued by serious conceptual problems, underachievement ranks among the most popular constructs in research on the gifted. Many of its problems have their roots in the use of the IQ as the supposedly best method of measuring ability levels. Only a few decades ago the opinion was still widespread that the IQ-based construct of…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Intelligence Quotient, Gifted, Cognitive Ability
Hafenstein, Norma Lu – 1990
The study examined relationships among information processing style, intellectual giftedness, and reading ability in 38 young (ages 4-6) gifted children. The children were given the Stanford Binet intelligence test, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. Findings indicated that: (1) intellectual…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Psychological Characteristics
Sternberg, Robert J. – Roeper Review, 2018
In this article, I describe the 21 ideas underlying a 42-year search to understand giftedness. I present the ideas roughly chronologically, in the order in which they arose, and discuss how in a career as in science, progress means supplementing or even superseding one idea with the next. In terms of the 21 ideas, I start with a discussion of how…
Descriptors: Gifted, Creativity, Ethics, Intelligence Tests
Rowe, Ellen W.; Dandridge, Jessica; Pawlush, Alexandra; Thompson, Dawna F.; Ferrier, David E. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
These 2 studies investigated the factor structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-4th edition (WISC-IV; Wechsler, 2003a) with exploratory factor analysis (EFA; Study 1) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; Study 2) among 2 independent samples of gifted students. The EFA sample consisted of 225 children who were referred for a…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Intelligence Tests, Academically Gifted
Lewis, Angelo John, Ed. – 1980
The booklet discusses the role of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in research on aspects of special education. Among research projects noted are those undertaken at the Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children: studies comparing premature with normal infants, evaluating the Infant Assessment Battery, measuring mother-infant…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Infants, Intelligence Quotient
Duncan, Ann Dell Warren – 1969
To determine whether gifted children are faster than average students on all behaviors sampled or only on academic subjects, 46 gifted and 30 average children were tested. The time rates for tapping, walking, reading, answering, and calculating were determined. All children were from grades 4 through 6; median IQ of the gifted was 138, and for the…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research
ENTWISLE, DORIS R. – 1961
TWO REPLICATIONS OF AN EXPERIMENT WERE CARRIED OUT WITH GIFTED (MEAN VERBAL IQ -- 127) 11TH GRADE STUDENTS IN A LARGE HIGH SCHOOL. THE MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO EXPLORE WHETHER "SET-LEARNING" MIGHT BE A MECHANISM OF LEARNING EMPLOYED TO A MARKED DEGREE BY GIFTED SECONDARY STUDENTS. CONTROL AND EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS WERE THE TWO TOP-ABILITY…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Gifted, Grade 11, Learning Activities
Mansfield, Katherine C. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2007
During a class discussion, a professor placed a quote on the overhead by Lewis Terman, former Stanford professor, APA president, and vicar of IQ testing and gifted education in America. The passage stressed that Mexicans and Blacks are born morons, not capable of learning, and should be segregated from Anglos in special classes. In addition, in…
Descriptors: African Americans, Discussion, Gifted, Critical Thinking
