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Kranz, Bella – 1994
This pamphlet examines the limitations of traditional identification strategies as they are applied to children from minority and nontraditional cultural backgrounds, and then suggests more effective alternatives. Conventional group tests are criticized for not providing a sufficient basis for addressing students' needs with regard to enrichment.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedHargrove, Kathy – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: intelligence testing, the concept of intelligence, the construct of creativity, greater understanding of brain functions, the work of John Dewey, Jerome Bruner, and Leta Hollingworth, school reform, world change, and the shift from identification to meeting…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Creativity, Educational Change, Educational Development
Peer reviewedBaldwin, Alexinia Young – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1994
The Javits 7+ Gifted and Talented Program (Community School District 18, Brooklyn, New York) was designed to provide an opportunity for socioeconomically disadvantaged children to receive intensive school-based activities that would prepare them for gifted education programs. Teachers assessed students using Howard Gardner's concept of multiple…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Gifted Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedDelisle, James R. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: publication of "A Nation At Risk," the Roeper School, differentiated curriculum, concepts of intelligence, the Marland Report, the Torrance Tests, Teachers' College at Columbia University achievements, the legacy of Leta S. Hollingworth, Sputnik, and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History
Download full textLockwood, Anne Turnbaugh – Research and the Classroom, 1993
The two articles in this newsletter issue focus on and discuss the multiple intelligences (MI) theory and its application in schools. Developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University, the theory argues that individuals differ in their abilities, learning styles, and interests, and that these differences need to be acknowledged and nurtured in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Theories, Individual Differences, Intelligence
Peer reviewedImbeau, Marcia B. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1999
This article describes critical events that have shaped gifted education, including: intelligence testing, world wars, deployment of the Sputnik and resulting legislation, civil rights, the work of advocacy organizations, the study of creativity, the changing roles of women, school reform, technology and computers, and teacher effectiveness. (CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advocacy, Computer Uses in Education, Creativity
