Intellectual Talent: Psychometric and Social Issues - Softcover

Benbow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801853028 ISBN 13: 9780801853029

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Based on the work of Julian C. Stanley and his model for working with gifted youth, this volume brings together a group of authorities to examine the dominant techniques used to educate gifted youth today and the exemplification of those techniques in various university-based programmes across the country. From a review of research on individual differences and its relevance to intellectual talent, to descriptions of the current knowledge about gifted children, this book illustrates how our educational system can enhance gifted youths' academic achievement. Part one examines the political ramifications of emotionally loaded findings about individual differences - documenting cases in which findings that contradict prevailing social values are simply ignored. Part two explores what is known about educating gifted children and why educators sometimes fail to act on that knowledge. Topics include: genetic antecedents to human behaviour; the underuse of knowledge; proper provisions for gifted students; the use of knowledge; psychometrics and genius. The book should be of interest to professionals and students of education and psychology, educational researchers and policymakers, and parents of gifted children.

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Review

"This well-edited book presents a cohesive body of work by authors who are adept psychometrically and also aware of the wider social and political world within which empirical findings may or may not take root... An excellent book [that] deserves to be widely read by psychometrists as well as by policy-based educators." -- Contemporary Psychology

Synopsis

Based on the work of Julian C. Stanley and his model for working with gifted youth, this volume brings together a group of authorities to examine the dominant techniques used to educate gifted youth today and the exemplification of those techniques in various university-based programmes across the country. From a review of research on individual differences and its relevance to intellectual talent, to descriptions of the current knowledge about gifted children, this book illustrates how our educational system can enhance gifted youths' academic achievement. Part one examines the political ramifications of emotionally loaded findings about individual differences - documenting cases in which findings that contradict prevailing social values are simply ignored. Part two explores what is known about educating gifted children and why educators sometimes fail to act on that knowledge. Topics include: genetic antecedents to human behaviour; the underuse of knowledge; proper provisions for gifted students; the use of knowledge; psychometrics and genius.

The book should be of interest to professionals and students of education and psychology, educational researchers and policymakers, and parents of gifted children.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801853028
• ISBN 13: 9780801853029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408