After nearly a century of development, gifted education has evolved into a complex
educational discipline with well thought out pedagogy and research agendas. However …

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Acknowledgments--Introduction: Setting the Stage. The Paradox of Continuity versus …

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that
covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation and …

Processing pediatric neuroimaging data is a challenge due to pervasive morphological
changes that occur in the human brain during normal development. This is of special …

Chapter 1 addresses the topic of intelligence and aptitude testing. The author classifies the
fallacies used to discredit them into three groups related to measurement (design, scoring …

Following the recent major school reform of Race to the Top, schools, teachers, and students
are increasingly evaluated through high-stakes achievement test scores. In six concise …

This commentary highlights previous literature (see record 2005-03637-001) focusing on
cultural and environmental explanations for the racial/ethnic group hierarchy of intelligence …

Introduction Recent studies of social inequality—the widening gap between rich and poor
and the lack of social mobility in the United States—all concur in one respect: it is easier to …

Measured by psychologists, conceived in critical terms, popularised as satire, and exploited
by politicians, meritocracy is a dilemmatic concept that has changed its meanings …

For several decades, college-bound students could have themselves certified" disabled"
and then receive miscellaneous" accommodations" on the SATs. Most commonly, these …