click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 15
Terms and Definition
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Enrichment | a key educational strategy for students with special gifts and talents |
| Acceleration | an educational strategy designed to meet the needs of students with special gifts and talents by advancing them through the curriculum at a faster pace than their age peers |
| main factors that contribute to giftedness | genetic and other biological factors, such as neurological functioning and nutrition; and the environment and other social factors, such as family, school, the peer group, and community. |
| Analytic giftednes | being able to take a problem apart—to understand the parts of a problem and how they are interrelated, which is a skill typically measured by conventional intelligence tests. |
| Creative giftedness | insight, intuition, creativity, or adeptness at coping with novel situations, skills that are typically associated with high achievement in the arts and sciences. |
| Practical giftedness | applying analytic and synthetic abilities to the solution of everyday problems, the kinds of skills that characterize people who have successful careers. |
| seven types of intelligence | linguistic, logico-mathematical, musical, kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligence |
| Three-Ring Conception Model of Giftedness | giftedness cannot be identified based on one single criterion |
| 1st ring | regular classroom enrichment infusion for all students |
| 2nd ring | special classes and enrichment clusters |
| 3rd ring | extra, co-curricular activities and special events |
| Stanley’s Talent Search Model | large-scale testing of middle school students to identify those with mathematics precocity |
| Sternberg’s Rainbow Project | used the triarchic model of identification, reduced the disparities among ethnic groups as compared to the SAT/ACT testing models |
| 1st stereotype | physically weak, socially inept, narrow in interests, and prone to emotional instability and early decline; or, in the opposite direction |
| 2nd stereotype | superior in intelligence, physique, social attractiveness, achievement, emotional stability, and moral character and immune to ordinary human frailties and defects |