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Subotnik explores the lives of those who have grown up gifted in this book. It summarizes a study administered to access the outcomes of early identification and schooling among a group of highly gifted students. There is information on the realities of schools, the expectations of others, and the choices that the gifted make as adults. The authors propose that reported reflections of these now older subjects can help in the gifted development of future students.
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Acadamic Precocity contains the first follow-up studies of more than 2,000 gifted seventh- and eighth-graders who are participating in the Johns Hopkins Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). The contributors to the program assess the effectiveness of its screening and educational techniques, explore the relationship between precocity and social adjustment, and report on the success of SMPY-type programs in other locales.
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In this collection of essays and interviews journalist Dick Russell examines the role of African Americans through two centuries of American history. He focuses primarily on the role of blacks in the cultural life of the United States. Black Genius and the American Experience, with an introduction by Alvin F. Poussaint, takes a thoughtful and fascinating look at the contributions to U.S. history made by Americans of African decent.
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This is Hollingworth's classic set of case studies of 12 children above 180 IQ. For most of the 20th century, this book was the definitive work on profoundly gifted children. It is an absolute must-read for anyone who is raising, teaching, counseling, or assessing a profoundly gifted child.
The book consists of detailed case studies of the 12 children, including early childhood developmental history; school history and adjustment; test performance on a variety of measures; examples of children's work; and, as far as was possible to tr...
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"This book offers a highly revealing-and troubling-view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences."
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This book presents the findings from the first systematic study of "eccentrics": highly talented and unusual people who don't feel the need to conform to the norms of society. The conclusion reached is that these people tend to be happier, healthier and more creative than the "conformists".
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This book provides an account of the development of 15 children with IQs exceeding 160. Gross examines indepth the children's developmental and educational history, and common characteristics. As well, it identifies educational strategies and adaptations for exceptionally gifted students. This book is must read for anyone raising, teaching, counseling, or assessing highly and profoundly gifted children.
http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/76379-ebook.htm
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This book by Joan Franklin Smutny pulls together years of research on educating gifted students. The result is a book that incorporates research with practical advice, how-tos, worksheets and application.
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This book presents research on the early developmental history of children who come to perform at the gifted IQ level during middle childhood, representing an integration of the four authors' interests in the fields of intelligence, psychometrics, and developmental psychology. The research presented is based on the Fullerton Longitudinal Study, which entails the systematic investigation of a single cohort studied from infancy onward.
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A comprehensive research-based publication offering practical assistance for:
- Parents of young gifted children
- University students in undergraduate early childhood or gifted education courses
- Academics studying and researching giftedness in early childhood
- Early childhood educators
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Intellectual Talent examines the political ramifications of emotionally loaded findings about individual differences - documenting cases in which findings that contradict prevailing social values are simply ignored. The book also explores what is known about educating gifted children and why educators sometimes fail to act on that knowledge.
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Prepared by 100 researchers and program developers from 24 different countries, the chapters of this second edition provide authentic, state-of-the-art, international perspectives on all aspects of identification and development of giftedness and talent.
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Next to its close relative intelligence, no topic in psychology or education has been as salient and controversial for so long a time as that of giftedness. In some areas of research, controversy proceeds but without notable progress. This volume is eloquent testimony to the progress of the field in the last few decades.
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Lives of Promise provides a vivid picture of the challenges talented young people must navigate in translating academic ability and achievement into successful adult careers and lives.
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/32430068
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Feldman's study of six male child prodigies includes extensive descriptions of the children's development in babyhood and early childhood. This volume includes case study material on an "omnibus prodigy" who scored well above 200 IQ.
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What makes an Einstein happen? How is it that some kids grow up to be Nobel laureates while others, seemingly their equals, go on to undistinguished careers? Dean Simonton, professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis, has striven to understand this phenomenon for years and has compiled his insights and research in Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity.
His evolutionary perspective sheds new light on an old topic, suggesting that the genius is able to generate a diverse range of ideas, rec...
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This is the first book to consolidate and expand existing knowledge about highly capable women and the internal and external forces that lead them to extraordinary adult accomplishment. The collected studies include women from a wide variety of backgrounds and talent domains whose paths to exceptional achievement illuminate the nature of female talent development and provide models to help more women fulfill their promise in adulthood.
http://depts.washington.edu/cscy/old/resources/remarkable.pdf
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Simonton develops a theory of scientific genius, using Donald Campbell's "blind variation and selective retention" model of creativity as his starting point, and expands it into his own "chance-configuration" theory. He then uses this to account for key aspects of pathbreaking science: the mental processes and behaviors behind the creative act, the cogntive and motivational styles of great scientists, the causes and consequences of exceptional productivity, and the developmental antecedents of distinguished scientific work.
The pheno...
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The authors summarize their observations of extremely gifted children observed in the course of testing and counseling at the New York University Clinic for the Social Adjustment of Gifted Children during the middle years of the 20th century. The chapter includes several clinical case studies and a discussion of educational and psychological problems faced by this population.
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This book seeks to define, understand, and enhance the talents of extraordinary individuals. The author discusses the social and historical forces that shapes the conceptualization and nurturing of gifted talent. The chapters go in depth about the perspectives-psychological, sociological, biological, and anthropological of the emergence of talent.
http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4318720
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Whether to admit a student into school earlier than the mandated age or advance a student ahead of his or her chronological peers remains for educators, parents, and students alike an issue of continuing concern and debate. The Academic Acceleration of Gifted Children provides a major review of the history and background issues surrounding this topic, past and present research, and the current state of the implementation of accelerative practices in American schools.
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This handbook covers the concept of expertise, differentiating between the performance and knowledge of experts and non-experts. The editors imply a series of interviews and diary entries to further display the inner workings of the minds of experts. Topics of expertise covered include brain activity, self-regulated learning, knowledge management, and much more.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052184097X
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The author attempts to influence the next generation who will research the central question of this book - what is the nature of intelligence and how does it develop? The book provides a contemporary review of methods and theories of the development of intellectual abilities from infancy to adulthood by the major researchers in the field.
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The essays in this book, an expanded version of the Winter 1968 Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review, examine the concept of equal educational opportunity in the context of these research findings and the current school crisis.
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This is the fourth volume resulting from the Stanford studies of gifted children. The present volume is an over-all report of the work done with the California group of gifted subjects from 1921 to 1946, the greater part of it being devoted to a summary of the follow-up data obtained in 1940 and 1945. The chief aim of the report is to give as complete a picture as possible, within a single volume, of what the group is like at the end of the first twenty-five years of testing and observation.
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Authors Neihart, Reis, Robinson, Moon offer an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including...
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This is a follow up study of the six prodigies described in David Henry Feldman's book, Nature's Gambit. The author discusses the middle, adolescent years of these children and development of their talents. It is a continuation of longitudinal study.
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Jane Piirto brings to her readers a unique perspective on the study of creativity from her dual life as a long-time educator and as a professional writer. She has masterfully synthesized and translated the major research on creativity and giftedness into a comprehensive and readable book.
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This book is a follow-up study of the world-famous high-IQ "Quiz Kids" of radio show fame from the 1940s radio show "The Quiz Kids." The author, a former profoundly gifted Quiz Kid herself, tracked down as many of her Quiz Kid cohort as possible and administered a questionnaire, then chose a selection of the Quiz Kids to interview in-depth.
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