Studying the meaning of giftedness: inspiration from the field of cognitive psychology.(Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives)

From: Roeper Review | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Miller, Erin Morris | Copyright information

How do we categorize our world so as to better understand and process the information streaming towards us? On a basic cognitive level, one must generalize and categorize new information so that one can better process it. The same concept applies to the identification of academically gifted students. We must identify academically gifted students so we can better serve them. However, there is one group of gifted students who are not being identified and therefore not served. The cur...

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