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Janos, Paul M.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1985
Responses of high IQ students and moderate IQ students to a set of questions about friendships were compared. Ss preferred friends of their own sex. More high IQ Ss reported their friends to be older than themselves, that they did not have enough friends, and that being smart made it harder to make friends. (CL)
Descriptors: Friendship, Gifted, Intelligence Differences, Peer Acceptance

Gallagher, James J. – Roeper Review, 2005
This article discusses the innovative minority. Gifted students differ from the average students. There are those who argue that the differences are a matter merely of quantitative degree reference studies of IQ scores, or SAT scores, which are clearly quantitative scales, and point out that gifted students appear at the top level of these scales…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Academically Gifted, Intelligence Quotient, Aptitude Tests

Abelman, Robert – Roeper Review, 1987
Investigation of the role of intellectual giftedness in influencing parents' perceptions and mediation of gifted (N=364) and non-gifted (N=386) fourth-graders' television viewing revealed that all parents exercised modest levels of intervention. However, students' intellectual giftedness did influence parents' perceptions of the possible impact of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Gifted, Intelligence Differences, Intermediate Grades

Sternberg, Robert J. – Roeper Review, 2000
This article presents an analysis of patterns of giftedness based on the triarchic theory of intelligence. The analysis distinguishes among seven different patterns of giftedness and includes: the Analyzer, the Creator, the Practitioner, the Analytical Creator, the Analytical Practitioners, the Creative Practitioner, and the Consummate Balancer.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Children, Classification

Ritchhart, Ron – Roeper Review, 2001
This article explores what the concept of intellectual character offers that traditional views of intelligence based on abilities do not. The origins of the concept of thinking dispositions are traced and various views regarding the dispositions that might comprise and define one's intellectual character are investigated. Educational implications…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Style, Curiosity, Elementary Secondary Education

Rea, Dan – Roeper Review, 2001
This article explains how the theory of the motivated mind conceptualizes the productive interaction of intelligence, creativity, and achievement motivation and how this theory can help educators to maximize students' emergent potential for giftedness. It discusses the integration of cold-order thinking and hot-chaotic thinking into fluid-adaptive…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted

Purcell, Jeanne H. – Roeper Review, 1996
This paper considers the role of intelligence in lifetime achievement, noting the importance not only of general cognitive ability but also abilities not measured by standardized intelligence tests. It urges educators of the gifted to utilize their knowledge of intelligence and talent development to challenge the one-dimensional conception of…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education

Plucker, Jonathan A. – Roeper Review, 2001
This introductory article examines how intelligence theory influences the way we identify and assess students, our attitudes toward giftedness and gifted students, the models upon which we base our programs and interventions, and many other aspects of gifted education. Past, present, and emerging intelligence theories are discussed. (Contains…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted

Pyryt, Michael C. – Roeper Review, 1996
This article examines psychometric analysis regarding the viability and limits of IQ testing in the context of "The Bell Curve." It discusses eyeball analysis versus item analysis, mean differences, validity coefficients, general intelligence, and IQ and gifted education, and urges a search for intrapersonal and environmental catalysts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Intelligence Differences

Hall, Eleanor G. – Roeper Review, 1980
Findings showed an almost even percentage of boys and girls, that more girls had fathers with doctorate degrees, that girls' arithmetic and spatial abilities were not significantly different from boys', that girls increased or decreased in IQ more than boys in high school, and that boys' IQs and grade point averages were significantly correlated…
Descriptors: Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Females

Kanevsky, Lannie – Roeper Review, 1995
A model of the sources of differences in the learning potentials of students is presented, including group differences in learning potentials between gifted and nongifted students; interindividual differences between gifted students; intraindividual differences within one gifted student; and independent and interactive contributions of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Style, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education

Pfeiffer, Steven I. – Roeper Review, 2001
Important work of Daniel Goleman, Peter Salovey and John Mayer on emotional intelligence (EI) is discussed to illustrate recent theorizing on EI. The article discusses conceptual and measurement problems that presently challenge the usefulness of the EI construct and urges further research. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Children, Emotional Development

Rogers, Karen B. – Roeper Review, 1996
This article summarizes the thesis of "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life," noting its rejection of educational intervention to solve social problems correlated to low IQ. It critiques the book for its failure to consider important research findings, and addresses the race issue, urging that the book's…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups