This book presents a model of curriculum development for gifted students and offers four parallel approaches that focus on ascending intellectual demand as students develop expertise in learning. The parallel curriculum's four approaches include: (1) the core or basic curriculum; (2) the curriculum of connections, which expands on the core…

A historical review of the science of developmental deviations in children leads from Johann Comenius in the 17th century to the current status of child psychiatry. (DB)

A geneticist discusses the heritability of intelligence and points out the pitcalls that lie in the path of those who try to estimate the heritability of IQ differences. (Editor)

The literature on observer characteristics and imitation was reviewed in an attempt to delineate the role of these variables in the imitative process. (ST)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the underlying dimensions of the 10 Rorschach inkblots by means of standard multidimensional scaling procedures. The question of whether such emergent dimensions would be related to standard Rorschach scoring categories was raised; and the possibility of individual characteristics was explored.…

The voices of school are the voices of people experiencing that special balance between autonomy and conformity. Author considers the need for autonomy and privacy in education. (Author/RK)

The differences in language patterns resulting from disparate social backgrounds are discussed. (CK)

Scored responses of 100 subjects to 30 neutral and 30 emotional words. Unique responses were prone to perseverations and reproduction faults on retest. Maudsley Personality Inventory Extraversion scores correlated with number of unique responses and perseverations elicited by neutral words. Reasons considered and it is argued that emotional…

This study reasons that handwriting needs the same individualized approaches as other skills. (Editor)

Discusses methods to win and hold adult interest. Physical, mental, emotional and psychological problems are considered and solutions suggested. (RB)

It would appear that traditional modelsof reliability, in which reliability estimates for an individual are estimated from group data, could yiel more accurate estimates if individual difference variables, such as response consistency, were taken into consideration in the estimation of reliability. (DG)