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Karnes, Merle – 1988
This monograph addresses issues and problems related to identification of and programming for gifted/talented children of preschool, kindergarten, and primary age. Barriers to early identification and programming are identified. A rationale for early identification and programming is presented, followed by administrative options including…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Curriculum, Delivery Systems, Early Identification
Hiatt, Evelyn Levsky, Ed.; Covington, Jeanette, Ed. – Update on Gifted Education, 1991
This document is a "theme" issue of a quarterly serial publication. It focuses on identifying and serving gifted children from diverse populations. The first article, "Eliminating Four Barriers to the Identification of Gifted Minority Students" by Mary Frasier, notes that: (1) not every impoverished home is illiterate; (2) limited opportunities…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Development
Hill Top Spectrum, 1987
The four issues contain articles on the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities (LDs). Article titles and authors include: "Learning Disability Specialist Looks at Foreign Language Instruction" (Elissa Fisher); "Physician Questions Reliability of Central Auditory Processing Tests in Diagnosing LD" (Daniel Schwartz); "Educator Urges…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Clinical Diagnosis
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Roeper Review, 1981
Four articles consider brain hemisphere functioning of gifted students as it relates to gifted programs; alternation of education methodologies; spatial ability as an element of intellectual gifted functioning; and the interaction between hemisphere specialization, imagery, creative imagination, and sex differentiation. (SB)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creativity, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Chronicle and Academic Precocity, 1983
This document combines all 1983 issues of a newsletter that focuses on issues of giftedness and talent. Among the major articles are discussions of the talent search conducted at five universities across the country; personal counseling approaches; the transition from high school to college; comparisons among Japanese, Soviet, and U.S. schools;…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Colleges, Counseling Techniques, Early Admission
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Spearritt, Donald – International Journal of Educational Research, 1996
The model of cognitive ability proposed by John B. Carroll is described and its implications for education traced. The Carroll model is unique in that it is based on datasets reanalyzed by standard procedures. The variables and factors established through factoring were used to construct the three-stratum Carroll model. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
ALBSU, 1989
This paper presents findings from a project to identify and pilot the most appropriate forms of learning support for students with specific learning difficulties. The specific focus is dyslexia among adult basic education students. The document suggests first that the tutor's awareness of specific learning difficulties be developed through…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Ancillary School Services, Classroom Techniques, Diagnostic Teaching
Drum, Jean, Ed. – Communicator, 1994
Five issues of the journal of the California Association for the Gifted comprise this document. The first issue focuses on the contributions of the late Jeanne Delp, a leading California educator. Articles by Delp include: "Who is Virgil T. Frey?,""How to Live Successfully with the Gifted Child,""Strangers among the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Gubbins, E. Jean, Ed. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented Newsletter, 2002
These two newsletters on gifted education from spring and fall of 2000 include the following articles: (1) "NRC/GT: Developing Expertise Using the 'Big Red Notebook'" (E. Jean Gubbins), which discusses the creation of a professional development module as an intervention tool to foster expertise in using the pedagogy of gifted education in general…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, American Indians, Career Counseling, Career Development
Silverman, Linda, Ed. – Understanding Our Gifted, 1990
This document consists of six issues (all of volume 2) of a newsletter subtitled "Dedicated to Helping Gifted Children Reach their Full Potential". These issues deal with all aspects of parenting and educating gifted children. Major articles include: "Re-examining the Concept of Underachievement" (Joanne Rand Whitmore);…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Child Rearing, Elementary Secondary Education
Communicator, 1992
This document consists of the five issues of the journal issued during 1992. Articles focus on the following major topics in gifted and talented education (GATE): (1) grouping and tracking; (2) cultural diversity; (3) educational reform and cooperative learning; (4) gifted girls; and (5) young gifted children. Major articles include the following:…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Cooperative Learning
Hess, Jody, Ed. – Communicator, 1991
These 12 articles focus on the theme of the arts in gifted education and nurturing artistic talent in the schools. "The California State Summer School for the Arts and Some Thoughts on Advocacy for Arts Education" by William Cleveland describes a program for artistically talented high school students and proposes a workshop based…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Art Education, Creativity, Educational Practices
Deaf-Blind Perspectives, 1998
This one-year collection of three serial issues focuses on problem solving skills for children with deaf-blindness, the history and change in the education of children who are deaf-blind since the rubella epidemic of the 1960's, and early identification of infants who are deaf-blind. Specific articles include: (1) "Research to Practice Focus…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Deaf Blind