Acknowledgements

Keynote Addresses

Academically Talented Students: They Don't Think the Way We Think They Think

The Acquired Nature of Expert Performance: Implications for Conceptions of Giftedness and Innate Talent?

Achieving Equity and Excellence: Recruiting and Retaining Minority Students in Gifted Education

Intelligence and the American Ambivalence Toward Talent

Ability Grouping, Self-Esteem, and the Gifted: A Study of Optical Illusions and Optimal Environments

Giftedness: The Ultimate Instrument for Good and Evil

Invited Papers

Elementary Students Who Can Do Junior High Mathematics: Policy or Pedagogy?

The Importance of Individual Differences for Exceptional Achievement

Beliefs About the Heritability of Abilities in Education, Music, and Sports

But Does it Work? Testing the Efficacy of Problem-Based Learning: A Review of the Literature and Research Agenda for Educators of the Gifted

Attributional Retraining: A Classroom-Intergrated Model for Nurturing Talents in Mathematics and the Sciences

Fluid Intelligence, Inductive Reasoning, and Working Memory: Where the Theory of Multiple Intelligences Falls Short

Identifying Personal Attributes for Scientific Excellence

Back to the Roots of Gifted Education: A European Perspective

Developing a Moral Compass in an Era of Moral Pluralism

Necessity is the Mother of Invention, or the Roots of Our ``System'' of Providing for Gifted Secondary Students

The Developement of Talent: Welcoming Youth into Communities of Practice

Helping Students Learn Only What They Don't Already Know

The Academic Road to Capitol Hill: Personal Experiences of Schooling and the Making of Educational Policy

Revisiting ``The Problem of Match:'' Contributions of Flow Theory to Talent Development

Concurrent Papers

Asynchrony and Self: A Developmental Paradigm

Achievement Differences Among Gifted, Above-Average Ability, and Average and Below-Average Ability College Students

Analyzing the Historical Thinking of Talented Science Students

Nurturing for Wisdom and Compassion: Influencing Those Who Influence

Teacher Attitude Toward Gifted Learners and Gifted Education: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Connie Belin Teacher Training Program 1981-1996

A Critical Difference: Critical Thinking as Exhibited through Persuasive Writing-An Examination Across Ability Levels

From Novice to Expert: A Pilot Study of Students' Perceptions of Developing Talents

Characteristics of Creative Thought: An Ecumenical Approach to Theory Construction

``To See in Long Stretches:'' A Biography-in-Progress of Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939)

Carnegie Mellon Elementary Student Talent Search: Establishing Appropriate Guidelines for Qualifying Test Scores

Gifted, Gay, and At Risk: A Study of the Adolescent Experience

Spiritual Giftedness and the Transpersonal Dimension of Experience

Twelve Issues: Implications of Post-Modern Curriculum Theory for the Education of the Talented

The Death of Creativity Measurement Has Been Greatly Exaggerated: Current Issues, Recent Advances, and Future Directions in Creativity Assessment

Theory Construction in Gifted Education: LISREL as a Conceptual Tool

The Effects of Content, Cognitive Congruence, and Camaraderie on Talented Students' Attitudes Toward Academically Accelerated Residential Programs

The Physical, Social, Emotional, and Environmental Differences of Profoundly Gifted Children: A Comparative Study

Teachers' Perceptions of Extraordinary Moral Behavior

Environmental, Familial, and Personal Factors that Affect the Self-Actualization of Highly Gifted Adults: Case Studies

Benefits of TIP Summer Residential Program Participation, as Reflected by Subsequent Academic Performance in High School

Evaluation of the Internal/External Frame of Reference Model for Gifted Adolescents

Traditional College Students' Attitudes Toward Radically Accelerated Students

Investigating Grade-by-Gender Interaction Effect of Academically Talented Elementary Students on the EXPLORE English Test

Perspective Taking in Young Gifted Children

Intrapersonal and Environmental Catalysts of Creativity

Curriculum Effectiveness Studies in Science and Language Arts for Gifted Learners

Eminent Finnish Women's Experience Of Sexism And Sex Stereotyping

Life Satisfaction of Eminent Korean Women

Author Index

Subject Index