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This paper provides a description of intellectual exceptionality derived from current views of intelligence and cognitive functioning. Such a theoretical framework differs from the classic psychometric foundations of giftedness and talent, although it coherently explains the full set of phenomena described in high abilities literature. Ability and skill levels of activity are integrated along the developmental dimension of cognitive functioning, and a specificity-generality continuum is proposed as a descriptive scheme for high level intellectual

This article first surveys the various causal factors involved in the emergence of academic talent as they appear in the authors Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT). The models six components are describe, as well as some interactions between them. The author then pinpoints the subcomponent enrichment provisions within the component environmental catalysts as the weakest causal contributor to talent emergence on average, explaining how that choice was made. Various impacts of that weakest link status are discussed, leading to a

The aim of this paper is to study the EI in high ability (gifted, talented and academic talented) and average ability (non-gifted or talented) students and look for differences between them depending on their cognitive profile. The participants comprising the high-ability (G&T) sample were drawn from different schools from Murcia (Spain). The initial identification of G&T required that the students met several criteria which included a) teacher nominations scale, based on Renzulli (1978) model; b) ability tests scores (BADyG, Yuste, Martínez

The study here presented has been carried out within context of the Program for the attention of high ability students of Canary Islands. The aim was to analyze the existent relationship between creativity and intelligence studying the figure and verbal creativity among different profiles of students with high ability and non exceptional students. For this purpose, we selected a sample of 634 students from 1º to 6º of Primary grades from different areas (urban and rural) of the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife. They were administered the Battery

This article explores the development of a science curriculum for high end learners and learning, based on the Integrated Curriculum Model, that emphasizes concept attainment and research investigation skills for students at the primary level of schooling. Findings from an intervention study suggest that primary age students in low income schools increase content and scientific process skills as a result of the curriculum innovation. Issues of fidelity of implementation and concerns about conducting research in schools are also explored.  

In this paper a number of ideas related to distance education and its role in teaching and learning are considered. Although these considerations have been made thinking principally of highly able students, our aim has been to generalize the possibilities of diversification and flexibility in the curriculum for any student be they highly able or not. It is true that the most capable students present special characteristics as regards the way they learn, as is obvious, but no less so is that, if we attend the principals which govern the teaching-learning

In this chapter, an overview of the discussion concerning research on the qualities of a good teacher in general and the best teacher for the gifted students in particular were reviewed. The qualities of a good teacher in the light of current research on effective teaching were presented. The main ideas of teacher thinking research were introduced with an emphasis on teachers pedagogical thinking. The qualities of a good online teacher in the light of current research on virtual teaching were reviewed. In addition to the desirable competencies and

It is presented an exploratory study in order to know what the population, object of research, thinks and feels about the sustainable development. Its purpose is to identify the educative needs of the students from University and to be used as the base to design an educative program in the frame of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). The results endorse urgency for designing and implementing programs which make available accurate knowledge of the environmental crisis and his deep roots but, over all, that

This article discuss the results of a research project on the leadership styles and the power networks deployed by women who head higher education organizations. Two questionnaires addressed to both the women heads and their fellows were used in order to collect data about the professional profile and the opinions of the participants in the study. We maintain that it is possible to recognise new forms of leadership in the way that women exercise power, which could contribute to the development and improvement of higher education organizations. To