We evaluated the Advanced Placement (AP) program from the point of view of intellectually precocious youth and their subsequent educational-vocational outcomes, analyzing normative and idiographic longitudinal data collected across 30 years from 3,937 participants. Most took AP courses in high school, and those who did frequently nominated an AP course as their favorite. Students who took AP co...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

Students with exceptional academic potential who come from low-income families are frequently not identified for and consequently are underrepresented in gifted and talented programs. Because of this, new means of identifying such children must be developed. This article presents the findings of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses conducted on the HOPE Scale, a 13-item teacher-rating i...

Engineering students often view performance skills—leadership, teamwork, and communication—as “soft skills.” Yet they are essential for advancing a professional career. To impart these skills, engineering educators recommend courses in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHS). Since a limited number of credit hours exist for nontechnical subjects in engineering curricula, educators focus...

Background:In this era, investing in human resources,especially the talented,is specifically important because they have high potential, creativity and initiative to advance science.so present study was conducted investigate situation of talented students at Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences.
 Methods:The is a qualitative research content analysis type with conventional approach....

either before or during the period of immunosuppression does not necessarily confer protection. This is illustrated by two of our patients. Case reports Case 1. A boy, aged 3 years 5 months, first presented with a history of a progressive petechial rash. Physical examination showed pallor, bruising, and hepatosplenomegaly. A bone marrow aspirate confirmed a diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leuk...