A Report Card on the State of Research in the Field of Gifted Education

Leading the list are curriculum development models and effective approaches to differentiation of instruction, with spillover into general education, as well as research assessing several accelerative options, ability grouping, cluster grouping, and modified cooperative learning groups. Probably the...

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Published inThe Gifted child quarterly Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 342 - 345
Main Author Robinson, Nancy M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.10.2006
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Academically Gifted
Adolescents
Behavior
Children & youth
Educational Strategies
Executives
Gifted children
Individualized Instruction
Investigations
Nontraditional Education
Reading Skills
Talent Development
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Leading the list are curriculum development models and effective approaches to differentiation of instruction, with spillover into general education, as well as research assessing several accelerative options, ability grouping, cluster grouping, and modified cooperative learning groups. Probably the most impressive body of work since that of Lewis Terman has been that following to adulthood the educational trajectory of students who have participated in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) established by the late Julian Stanley, demonstrating the virtues of acceleration, the predictive power of tests administered to young adolescents, and the value of investment in talent development (e.g., Webb, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2002).
ISSN:0016-9862
1934-9041
DOI:10.1177/001698620605000407