This all well and good, but what’s the reality of the matter? How do states actually define and identify giftedness in the United States? Has anything actually changed since the Terman IQ cutoff-only days? Francoys Gagne’s Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT) includes traits such as motivation and temperament as catalysts that help transform gifts (e.g., intellectual, socio-affective) to talents (e.g., academics, social activists). In Joseph Renzulli’s Three-Ring definition, giftedness is conceptualized as the interaction of high ability (top 15-20 percent of any domain), creativity, and task commitment. Other researchers have added psychosocial traits to the picture. Sternberg proposed a synthesis of wisdom, intelligence, and creativity. Howard Gardner proposed eight independent abilities: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. Various psychologists have put forward their own pet theories of giftedness. In the report, Secretary of Education Richard Riley called gifted education the “quiet crisis.” That report was important in its broadening of giftedness.Ī more recent report released by the National Department of Education in 1993 (“ National Excellence: A Case for Developing America’s Talent“) kept the multidimensional definition of giftedness but once again lamented the sorry state of gifted education. proposed a broadened definition that went beyond just IQ to also include specific academic and creative aptitudes. Noting that only a small percentage of the 1.5 to 2.5 million gifted school children were actually benefiting from special education services, former U.S. Then the first federal definition of giftedness came along in 1972, which was undoubtedly an important step forward. This criterion was heavily influenced by the pioneering work of Lewis Terman, who equated high IQ with genius. Prior to 1972, practically every school used one criterion and one criterion only to identify giftedness: an IQ cut-off of 130. Today, lots of different definitions of giftedness exist. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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