Study 1 examined the construct validity of the Strong Interest Inventory and the Study of Values for 695 intellectually talented 13-year-olds. Study 2 consisted of a generalization probe to 695 graduate students enrolled in select universities. This analysis manifested an impressive degree of adolescence-to-adult cross-validation. Well-known preference questionnaires appear to assess meaningful...

Facing the problem of more content, less course time, fear emotions of students, A complete reform from the teaching contents, teaching means, teaching methods and other aspects which is closely around the target of the talented cultivation "Emphasize on theoretical basis are taken, strengthen engineering application" of motor learning courses. Practice has proved that these measures had mobili...

The first five years of a new program to organize high-level scientific research training for gifted high school students in Hungary are described. Besides giving unique research opportunities for talented students in their most receptive age, the program already helped the establishment of almost 100 scientific research clubs in Hungarian high schools, provided a focal point for science traini...

School choice reforms, such as lottery and voucher programs, give talented students the choice to sort out of low-performing schools but often leave disadvantaged students behind. This study shows how a Chinese city was successful in helping its low-performing schools to catch up by encouraging talented students to sort into its low-performing schools. The city’s education bureau identified sev...

My passion for teaching began early. Throughout high school and college, I tutored English to African immigrants. Later, while student teaching remedial and gifted-and-talented mathematics at a New York City public middle school, I realized the diversity of how students learn. Some students thrive off interactive lectures, while others do not fully digest a lecture until working out examples at...

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...