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Gifted Testing Begins
Binet and Simon develop a gifted test called the Binet-Simon to help identify gifted students. What was huge about this, is that they gave a number to identify if a student was gifted or not. This helps us to clearly identify a student without personal opinions involved. -
Terman's Study
Lewis Terman began the biggest study on gifted children (1,500). He wrote five volumes on the study and determined that a lot of stereotypes about gifted children were untrue and that they went on to live successful lives. This was helpful because it gave us information about gifted students that we did not have before. That way we were able to adjust our schools to help these students. -
Special Opportunity Class Begins
Leta S. Hollingworth began the special opportunity class in New York. All of the students had an IQ over 155. She wanted to understand what type of learning environment and curriculum would be the best for these students. After this she wrote a book about her experiences called Gifted Children. -
Sputnik Launches
This is an event that is still talked about in education because it was not America that launched Sputnik. We felt that we were lacking in education so after this event, we started to put more money into gifted education programs to allow us to have the same advantages for the younger generations. -
The Marland Report
It is determined that there has to be a formal definition of what a gifted student is. It is also determined that a student can be more than gifted in math or reading. This is huge because it ties into how we label gifted today. -
Gifted Standards
NAGC publishes gifted standards for pre-k through 12th grade in seven key areas. These were then revised in 2010 as well. This made it possible for a teacher to better understand how to help these students better. It gave teachers a guide or a path to follow.
