Proposed is a project on the classification of exceptional children with the objectives of increasing public awareness of labeling problems, providing a rationale for public policy, and improving the professional practice of educators and others who work with exceptional children. The study is to be guided by an advisory committee and will result…

Five objectives that might be attained through fitness testing are: (1) evaluation of program effect on participant fitness; (2) participant motivation to improve fitness; (3) identification of low-fit individuals; (4) dissemination of information regarding fitness; and (5) identification of potential athletes.

With careful design and implementation, ability grouping can be a useful educational practice. This article examines issues and explains how ability grouping can be used to raise achievement with minimal negative effects. Alternatives to ability grouping are outlined. (MT)

Legislation in Ontario to encourage early identification in school of those who will become future scientists, mathematicians, sculptors, composers, painters, dancers, etc. leads to the question of whether artistic and scientific achievement can be distinguished at an early age. Further investigation is needed, putting into question the…

This study examined the extent to which the Auditory Association subtest of the revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) measures the ability of children to complete verbal analogies. (Author)

As part of the development of a year-long, kindergarten art program, this study was conducted to identify the relevant skills already possessed by learners for whom the instruction is intended. (Authors/MB)

Perceptual training of learning disabled children is discussed from the viewpoints that identification of an ability of perception is misleading and that training of abilities on the basis of testing is questionable. (CB)

Discusses limitations of generally accepted criteria for identifying the academically gifted. Recommends an identification process which equates precocity with academic talent by focusing on children who perform exceptionally well on advanced tests of specific subject matter. Notes that this process has been useful in identifying the gifted among…

The author critiques the objective measurement movement, particularly the Rasch model, as misguided and overly simplistic. (SJL)

The article discusses the breadth and depth of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) in its seventh year (1977-78). SMPY emphasizes the educational acceleration of youths who reason unusually well mathematically, and its activities focus on four areas: identification, description, development, and dissemination. (DLS)

Visual perceptual abilities of 47 institutionalized trainable retarded Ss (mean age 20 years) were compared on selected measures of visual perception. (Author/PHR)

This exploratory study of 79 high school students examined overexcitability assessment as a potential method for identifying giftedness. Overexcitability (an intensified way of experiencing the world) can occur in five areas: psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional. The measure of overexcitability differentiated gifted and…

Briefly reviews the complexities surrounding the definition of giftedness and explores the problems of identification from the point of view of the regular classroom teacher. Discusses developing a definition, the behavior problems of gifted students, and the differences between bright children and gifted students. (Author/CR)