Case studies of extremely gifted individuals often reveal unique patterns of intellectual precocity and associated abnormalities in development and behavior. This article begins with a review of current neurophysiological and neuroanatomical findings related to the gifted population. The bulk of scientific inquiries provide evidence of unique patterns of right prefrontal cortex and inferior fro...

Factor analysis was applied to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Third Edition (WISC-III) scores of 505 gifted students to evaluate the construct validity of the WISC-III with this population. Multiple criteria were used to determine the number of factors to retain for principal axis extraction. A two-factor solution that roughly mirrored the verbal comprehension and perceptual organ...

The purpose of this study was to develop the Scale of Teacher Perception of Gifted students. The validity and reliability studies were conducted. The sample consisted of 175 randomly selected primary school teachers. Within the scope of the scale validity studies, contextual validity was determined, based on specialist opinions, while the factor analysis was used for determining the structural ...

This study investigated risk and protective factors associated with dyslexia and literacy development, both at the group and individual level, to gain more insight in underlying cognitive profiles and possibilities for compensation in high-IQ children. A sample of 73 Dutch primary school children included a dyslexic group, a gifted-dyslexic group, and a borderline-dyslexic group (i.e., gifted c...

Research involving gifted and grade-level students has shown that they display differences in their knowledge of selfregulatory strategies. However, little research exists regarding whether these students differ in their actual use of these strategies. This study aimed to address this question by examining think-aloud data collected from 98 gifted and grade-level students engaging in a complex ...

In this paper we suggest that instruments of neuro-cognitive research enable the evaluation of giftedness in mathematics. We start with a literature review on the related topics presented so as to situate our suggestions within the existing research on giftedness and excellence in mathematics. This literature review allows us later to discuss our findings, which are based on neurocognitive data...

Similar to the job each airline crew member needs to perform in preparation for a flight take-off, a school district also needs to pursue an action plan for identifying and educating its gifted students. This plan is commonly referred to as a ‘model’ or ‘framework.’ Because numerous international models of gifted identification exist, a school district must choose one that best addresses their ...

Between 2006 and 2008 the Ministry of Education funded the evaluation of three Talent Development Initiatives for gifted and talented students. The methodology employed was one of participatory action research, a process of evaluation that enables learning by doing, as researchers and practitioners work alongside one another. Through the process of evaluating the three programmes, the researche...

Similar to the job each airline crew member needs to perform in preparation for a flight take-off, a school district also needs to pursue an action plan for identifying and educating its gifted students. This plan is commonly referred to as a ‘model’ or ‘framework.’ Because numerous international models of gifted identification exist, a school district must choose one that best addresses their ...

Outstanding gifted programs reflect the special qualities of the people and schools involved, but have many characteristics in common. or the past fie yecars we havc experimented with a rici program for gifted and talented students that has been used successfully in several school locations and under a variety of conditions (Renzulli, 1982. Reis and Rcnzulli. 1982, Dclisle and Renzulli, 1981; D...