Gifted Students
Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average.
It is different from a skill,
in that skills are learned or acquired behaviors.
Like a talent, intellectual giftedness is usually believed to
be an...
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Gifted Students
Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average.
It is different from a skill,
in that skills are learned or acquired behaviors.
Like a talent, intellectual giftedness is usually believed to
be an innate, personal aptitude for intellectual activities that cannot be acquired through personal
effort.
Various ideas about the definition, development, and best ways of identifying intellectual
giftedness have been put forward.
Intellectual giftedness may be general or specific.
For example, an intellectually gifted person may have
a striking talent for mathematics, but not have equally strong language skills.
When combined with an
adequately challenging curriculum and the diligence necessary to acquire and execute many learned
skills, intellectual giftedness often produces academic success.
For many years, psychometricians and psychologists, following in the footsteps of Lewis Terman in 1916,
believed that giftedne
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