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...

We present as examples, some problems which motivate talented undergraduates, or even high school students, to do research in mathematics. These problems are related to the speaker’s research activity. They have been presented in the past to attract very bright students. Here we go through the roots of some of these problems and elaborate the research topics behind them.

abstract introduction: the quantity and quality of research papers and projects is considered as the most important indicator of scientific development in any country therefore, the plan to compare barriers to research activities form the point of view of normal and talented students at arak university of medical sciences was performed in 2010. methods and materials: this study was a cross sect...

For software development companies, one of the most important objectives is to identify and acquire talented software engineers in order to maintain a skilled team that can produce competitive products. Traditional approaches for finding talented young software engineers are mainly through programming contests of various forms which mostly test participants’ programming skills. However, success...

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (2000) “Education for All” goals, all students are entitled to opportunities to fulfil their potential. This implies that appropriate programs need to be in place for all children, especially gifted Aboriginal students. Accordingly, this means that all educational institutions in Australia have an obligation to ...

time perspective is a useful psychological construct associated with educational outcomes (Phalet, andriessen, & lens, 2004) and may prove fruitful for research focusing on academically talented adolescents. thus, the relationship of time perspective to age, gender, and academic achievement was examined among 722 academically talented middle and high school students. time perspective was measur...