Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify South Korea's successful IT start-ups' HRD practices to determine whether there are steps that must be taken to maintain their HRD expertise for continued growth. Design/methodology/approach: A case study approach employing four fast-growing IT start-up cases was undertaken based on semi-structured…

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, has served as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), since 1992. He is coauthor of "Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males" (1998) and "Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women" (2001). Under Hrabowski's leadership, the…

The authors investigated whether intensive musical experience leads to enhancements in executive processing, as has been shown for bilingualism. Young adults who were bilinguals, musical performers (instrumentalists or vocalists), or neither completed 3 cognitive measures and 2 executive function tasks based on conflict. Both executive function…

In this article, the author's comments are divided into two parts. In the first part, he tries to compose succinct formulations of the three challenges with which Professor Ericsson has confronted giftedness researchers. The following are Ericsson's three challenges of giftedness research: (1) Is there empirical evidence that reproducibly superior…

Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. She is the current president of the National Association for Gifted Children. Prior to coming to William & Mary, Dr. VanTassel-Baska founded and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern…

This article examines different manifestations of verbal talent and how teachers can identify and cultivate special verbal abilities in students. The provision of role models relevant to students' interests is stressed and a list of recommended biographies is included, as are literary experiences available to student writers. The relationship of…

Presents a set of 22 sequentially structured statements on the nature and origin of human abilities, gifts, and talents. The statements are grouped into three sections: the nature of human abilities, individual differences and their origins, and the specific case of gifts and talents. (Author/CR)

National statistics continue to show substantial disparities in the postsecondary enrollment and completion rates between more and less advantaged groups. Despite gains made on the part of low-income, first generation, and minority students in the areas of access, persistence, and academic achievement, gaps still exist (Avery & Kane, 2004;…

The under-identification and underrepresentation of English language learners (ELLs) in gifted programs remains a severe and pervasive problem in the field of gifted education (Yoon & Gentry, 2009, VanTassel-Baska & Stambaugh, 2007). This study focused on ELLs in grades K-5 from four elementary schools in Midwestern school districts (a) to…

Effective talent-identification procedures minimize the proportion of students whose subsequent performance indicates that they were mistakenly included in or excluded from the program. Classification errors occur when students who were predicted to excel subsequently do not excel or when students who were not predicted to excel do. Using a…

Jay, an African American male, was placed in the gifted class in fifth grade. He lined up with his new class on the first day of school, but refused to enter the classroom. He was angry that he had been placed in the class with "those kids" and wanted to be in the other class where his friends were. Each day thereafter, Jay struggled with being…

The booklet presents information for parents of gifted and talented children. Topics addressed include the following: identification (early development, intellectual traits, language and academic skills, interests, and social and individual characteristics); parents' role in the education of their gifted/talented children; ways to encourage the…

The author sees S. Reis and J. Renzulli's case for a broadened conception of giftedness as being conceputally weak; points out the theoretical short-comings of the enrichment triad; and suggests that the "Revolving Door Identification Model" is accommodating and misleading. (Author/CL)

Artistic talent is examined by countering popular misconceptions about students with superior abilities. A conception of artistic talent is presented in which parallels are drawn between the representation of intelligence on a normal distribution and representation of talent in art on a naive-to-sophisticated continuum. (Author)

The paper supports the talent search concept of using the Scholastic Aptitude Test to find highly able junior high age populations. Three underlying principles--off-level testing, specific aptitude rather than global testing, and specific matches between tested aptitudes and curriculum focus--are discussed. (CL)