The existence of gifted students who have learning difficulties has been well documented (Brody & Mills, 1997; Dix & Schafer, 1996; Ellston, 1993 ; Fetzer, 2000; Hishinuma & Tadaki, 1996; Rivera, Murdock, & Sexton, 1995). These students display a learning capacity that is characteristic of students who are gifted, in parallel with a specific learning disability in areas of academic performance ...

although distance learning often is cited as a potentially useful strategy to provide appropriately challenging academic coursework to gifted students, little research has been conducted on its use or effectiveness with this population, particularly with younger students in elementary school. in this study, distance learning outcomes for gifted students from age 5 to 17 were examined, drawing o...

Despite the vital role of the referral as the “gatekeeper” process through which students become eligible for official evaluation for entry into gifted programs, it remains poorly understood. An examination of the gifted education literature reveals a paucity of research in this area. This is especially troubling and indeed surprising given the field’s well-documented struggle to identify and s...

Leta Stetter Hollingworth, a pioneer of gifted education in America, embodies the dichotomy between the ideals of progressive education and the measurement movement prevalent at the beginning of this century, the movement most closely associated with the identification of gifted and talented students. The Speyer School experiment illustrated how the measurement paradigm could dominate a very de...

What recent research has been conducted about gifted and talented students and their learning experiences in school? As we complete the first decade of the new century we are entering a time when much attention is focused on remediation and test preparation; it only seems appropriate to reflect upon what has been learned about gifted education during the last few decades and consider the compel...

This is one of the most commonly used methods of identification, and its effectiveness varies enormously. Identification of gifted and talented students improves when teachers are informed of the nature and purpose of the programme for gifted and talented students. Teachers are likely to support their judgments with the help of tools, such as checklists, teacher observation scales, and student ...

The theory of work adjustment was used as a conceptual framework in evaluating the concept of multipotentiality, taken from the psychological literature on counseling intellectually gifted individuals (viz., those with high-fiat ability and preference profiles that may lead to career indecision and distress). An examination of over 1,000 intellectually gifted students (top 1%) in 4 separate coh...

“Talent in the New Millennium” was a research study into gifted education, conducted over a two-year period in 68 centres and schools in three disparate regions of New Zealand. Using questionnaires, oral interviews and sample case studies, the study drew input from educators of the gifted, from children and students identified as gifted, and from the parents and caregivers of children thus iden...

The research aimed to study the effectiveness of using an E-training package to develop Webquest designing skills for teachers of gifted students. The main research question was how well gifted students’ teachers acquire the Webquest’s designing skills after studying the proposed E-training package? The research follows a quasiexperimental design for one group. The sample consists of 23 teacher...