The Creative Path: An Interview With Dean Keith Simonton

Creativity tests measure specific cognitive processes such as thinking divergently, making associations, constructing and combining broad categories, or working on many ideas simultaneously. They also measure noncognitive aspects of creativity such as motivation (e.g., impulse expression, desire for novelty, risk‐taking), and facilitatory personal properties like flexibility, tolerance for independence, or positive attitudes to differentness. Raters can score the various kinds of test with substantial levels of agreement, while scores are internally stable to an acceptable degree. The tests also correlate to a reasonable degree with various criteria of creativity such as teacher ratings, and are useful predictors of adult behavior. Thus, they are useful in both research and education. However, they are best thought of as measures of creative potential because creative achievement depends on additional factors not measured by creativity tests, such as technical skill, knowledge of a field, mental health, or even opportunity. However, the multidimensional creativity concept they define indicates that assessments should be based on several tests, rather than relying on a single score.     

Remarkable Trailblazer: An Interview With Jonathan Plucker

The quest for culture‐free or even culture‐fair tests of abilities has not succeeded. In their place, a culture‐specific approach to testing is suggested to identify talent hidden by socioeconomic deprivation. The culture‐specific approach to testing for artistic talent in black students suggested here is “Tactuality.” Tactuality was constructed by finding characteristics common to black cultural strengths and the artistically talented. The four characteristics of Tactuality identified were: emotional intensity, flexibility and open‐endedness, holistic perception, and tactile sensitivity. A Tactuality Test (Tac Test) was devised based on these four characteristics. The Tac Test was pilot tested with 63 fourth‐graders comprising an ethnic mixture. Statistical problems with validation occurred, requiring further statistical analysis and a larger test population.     

师范生“志趣与习惯”调查与思考

从教志趣和学习习惯是师范生将来成为合格教师的基本保证。通过对师范生从教志趣和学习习惯的抽样调查发现,从教意愿不强、学习目标不明确、学习的功利化趋势以及学习行为习惯不良、学习态度不端正是当前师范生存在的主要问题。需要加强师范生的职业生涯规划教育,树立师范生坚定的教育信念;健全学习管理制度,充分发挥辅导员的管理作用,促进师范生良好学习习惯的养成。     

Field of Gifted Dreams: An Interview With Susan Assouline

The characteristics of teachers in a full day program for the gifted were compared with those of teachers in the regular program using the Teacher Perceiver Interview, a structured interview technique which measures 12 characteristics of outstanding teachers. Six of the themes differentiated between the two groups. In comparing the six themes to characteristics of teachers of the gifted found in the literature, some traits which had previously been suggested to be characteristics of gifted teachers were confirmed, some were found not to be different from good teachers in general, and some characteristics not previously noted were found to differentiate teachers of the gifted.     

教师专业发展:专业身份建构与专业知识学习 ——杜韦·贝加德教授专访

教师专业身份建构和教师专业学习是教师教育的核心议题.国际知名教师教育学者杜韦·贝加德教授在回顾自己教师教育研究历程的基础上,认为对教师专业身份和教师专业学习的研究有助于透视教学的复杂性和独特性,有助于理解教师行为、实践知识及两者之间的关系,从而辨析在实践中影响教师工作的个人因素和情境因素.未来关于教师专业身份的研究,需要将其中的个人专业发展与专业学习相结合,使教师不仅成为"应用型学习者",更成为"意义导向型学习者".同时,需要注重研究教师知识和教师教育者的多元教学知识,通过档案袋与行动研究等途径来发展教师知识.关于未来的教师教育研究,贝加德教授认为有三方面需要注意:一是定期总结回顾有关教师教育某一主题的研究成果并探究其如何启迪实践;二是教师教育的研究主题比研究传统和范式更加重要;三是要强调教育研究对促进教师专业发展的潜力.     

An International Perspective on Gifted Education: An Interview With Kirsi Tirri

Expectancy-value motivation profiles were identified in a sample of US ninth-grade students in 2009 (n = 19,259) using latent profile analysis. Of four distinct profiles, two were high, one typical, and one low in math and in science. In each area, the two high profiles were distinguished by (1) high self-efficacy with lower utility value and (2) high utility value with lower self-efficacy. High-ability was identified by a math score at least one standard deviation above the mean within the race/ethnicity group. Forty-one percent of high-ability students had high math motivation, while only 27% had high science motivation. Evidence of disidentification was observed. Some high-ability students had low motivation in math (15%) and science (28%). Implications for talent development and gifted education are discussed.     

教学与研究并重:我与教学论——访李定仁先生

李定仁先生投身西北教育50余年,为我国教育事业发展做出了重要贡献,在工作中坚持以教学促进科研,以科研带动教学,为我国教学论专业发展培养了一大批优秀人才。因此我们专访了李定仁先生,与先生就学术研究、研究生培养以及教学论专业发展趋势等方面的看法进行了交流。     

试论高校图书馆专业人才队伍建设

图书馆专业人才队伍建设是关系到今后高校图书情报服务乃至人才培养成功与否的大事，本就人才培养、引进、管理方面进行了阐述分析。     

Strengthening Emotional Development: An Interview With Child Psychiatrist Joan Luby

Metacognition is an important component of advanced intellectual performance and, therefore, has been proposed to be more advanced in intellectually gifted than average children. However, existing research comparing gifted to average children's metacognitive abilities does not support this idea uniformly. Compared to average children, gifted children appear to have generally better declarative metacognitive knowledge and better ability to transfer strategies to situations distinct from those in which the strategy was learned. However, gifted children do not demonstrate consistently better strategy use, maintenance, or near transfer compared to average children. Nor do they display better cognitive monitoring ability compared to average children. Metacognition appears to be important to the development of high achievement in a domain. We argue that metacognitive abilities might be incorporated as additional criteria for entry into programs for the gifted beyond standard intelligence measures. Several identification methods which include metacognitive information are discussed.     

Talent Sleuth Extraordinaire: An Interview With Camilla P. Benbow

Independent study is one of the most effective methods for providing individualized instruction to the gifted child in the regular classroom.     

Groundbreaking Investigator of Creativity: An Interview With James C. Kaufman

The University of Redlands and Redlands Unified School District cooperate to provide a program for gifted 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students. The cooperative venture began as a way to maintain a gifted program in the wake of budget cuts. In three years of operation the program has experimented with scheduling patterns, course offerings, and teacher selections. What has been learned may be of benefit to other districts considering a cooperative university/school district gifted program.