An identification procedure was implemented in the Greensboro Public Schools (North Carolina) to address the issue of the underrepresentation of minority students in the Academically Gifted Program. Although approximately 50% of the Greensboro Public School elementary students were minority students, only 13% of the students in the elementary…

The state of South Carolina enacted the Educational Improvement Act of 1984 which mandated the identification of young students gifted in the visual and performing arts. This practicum sought to effectively identify South Carolina children in grades 1-3 who were gifted and talented in art, music, drama, and dance. The program used an…

Research supported by Public Health Research Grant MH-10274-4 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Because conventional test instruments designed to predict academic performance of the young tend to be inaccurate measures of competence in the elderly, new assessment instruments are being constructed which are more appropriate for current cohorts of the elderly. A comparison of performance on conventional measures to performance on newly…

The feasibility of training selected abilities so as to facilitate transfer among tasks requiring these abilities and therefore reduce training time and increase personnel flexibility was investigated by the Office of Naval Research. Sixty undergraduate college students participated in a study of from one to five days duration. Experimental…

THE SCHOOLS SERVING DEPRESSED AREAS ARE FINDING IT INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO RETAIN TEACHERS AND TO ATTRACT ADDITIONAL TRAINED TEACHERS TO FILL INCREASING NUMBERS OF VACANCIES. SOCIOECONOMIC, ETHNIC, CULTURAL, AND EDUCATIONAL FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO DISADVANTAGEMENT ARE COMPOUNDED WHEN MET WITH THE OBJECTIVE SCREENING MEASURES FOR COLLEGE…

The concept that each child has unique talents that can be developed through a school-based instructional program is the basis for the described project and accompanying guide book for teachers. A rationale for talent development and research findings on the topic are presented, as well as articles on multiple talent education and talent…

This paper presents the results of a study conducted as a follow-up to a joint project between the Flint Community Schools and the Educational Testing Service. In the project, a model for the identification and selection of gifted children was developed. The model sought to minimize the biases operating in more traditional identification…

The separation and comparison of sex and dominance as they relate to the ability to decode emotional meaning from nonverbal cues were investigated in a study conducted with 51 female and 55 male college students. The study was based on the assumption that submissiveness is positively related to skill in decoding nonverbal cues and was designed…

The primary objectives of this project commonly refereed to as "Assessing Human Abilities" were: (1) to provide reference measures for cognitive factors; and (2) to provide a guide to reference measures for self-report temperament factors. The overall objective was to conduct research in the area of factor analysis directed toward the…

Project ABLE is a series of demonstration educational programs initiated in 1961 for the purpose of identifying and encouraging potential abilities among pupils from culturally deprived groups and low socioeconomic backgrounds. The word ABLE was chosen to indicate a belief that, given adequate resources, schools are ABLE to devise educational…

The guide for teachers of academically gifted elementary school children focuses on the provision of challenging learning experiences designed to involve the students as active participants. Compared are approaches to identification of the gifted such as use of intelligence scores, achievement test scores, and teacher or principal recommendation.…

At the seventh Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems, the following speeches were given: (1) "A Guidance Person's Approach to Testing for the Discovery and Development of Human Talent" by Frances D. McGill; (2) "The Instructional Uses of Measurement in the Discovery and Development of Human Talent" by Roy P. Wahle; (3) "New Frontiers of…

This paper describes the value of life change as a nonintellectual predictor of college grades. A correlation was sought between the amount of change experienced and grade point average (GPA) accumulated by students during their freshman year. Three hundred freshmen were evenly divided into low, medium, and high academic risk groups as indicated…

In order to determine the professional education competencies of selected community college vocational instructors, a mail survey questionnaire containing 99 competencies together with a five-point Likert-type scale was used to gather data from a random sample of 160 instructors of business and distributive education at the community college level…