Developmental Changes in Processing Speed: Influence of Accelerated Education for Gifted Children

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoju Duan ◽  
Jiannong Shi ◽  
Dan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Processing Speed ◽  
Developmental Changes ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Accelerated Education

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study on the Relationship between Creativity and Processing Speed for Gifted Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulkadir Bahar ◽  
Mehmet Ali Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship

This study explored the relationship between processing speed and five dimensions of creativity, which were fluency, originality, elaboration, abstractness of titles, and resistance to premature closure (RPC). It is the first empirical study that examines this relationship, also relating it to gender and level of giftedness. Data came from 133 gifted students at grades one through four in three private schools in Istanbul, Turkey. Creativity was measured through the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking – Figural. Scores from the Coding subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children were used as the data on processing speed. The findings showed that girls had significantly higher scores in processing speed, elaboration, abstractness of titles, and RPC. There were no significant differences in fluency and originality. While fluency and originality were the only two subscores correlated with processing speed for boys (both positively correlated), four subscores were correlated with processing speed for girls (all four negatively correlated). Girls had higher processing speed scores in the group of low giftedness, but not in the group of high giftedness. A distinct finding about the boys of high giftedness was the high positive interrelationships among originality, fluency, and processing speed, which were not there for boys of low giftedness or girls of high giftedness. With its findings, the study supports some of the previous explanations around the topic, and generates new hypotheses to be tested experimentally.

scholarly journals COMPETENCE APPROACH IN REALIZATION OF STRATEGIES OF SPEED-UP STUDIES FOR WORK WITH THE GIFTED CHILDREN: AMERICAN REALITIES AND UKRAINIAN PROSPECTS

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petro O. Tadeiev
Keyword(s):  
Gifted Education ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Accelerated Education ◽  
Children Education

The article deals with teachers’ readiness to accelerated education strategies realization for gifted children education in the frames of competences’ approach. The structure and content of key and specific competences of gifted education teacher in acceleration programes have been determined.

Usefulness of WISC-IV in Determining Intellectual Giftedness

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Molinero ◽  
Sara Mata ◽  
Mª Dolores Calero ◽  
Mª Belén García-Martín ◽  
Arsenio Araque-Cuenca
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Perceptual Organization ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Verbal Comprehension ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Order Factor ◽  
Intellectual Level

AbstractSeveral studies question the usefulness of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV) in determining giftedness due to the importance of speed in some of its subtests, which may penalize children of high intellectual level. This study analyzes the factor structure of the WISC-IV of gifted children based on confirmatory factor analysis. Participants were eighty-seven gifted children from Spain (6–13 years old). Score discrepancies were also examined for the main indexes: Verbal Comprehension, Processing Speed, Working Memory and Perceptual Organization. Results pointed out four models with a good fit from the five models analyzed: a two-factor model according to GAI subscales (RMSEA = .001, p = .84), a four-factor first-order model including main indexes (RMSEA = .05, p = .19), a four-factor model with g as a direct factor (RMSEA = .001, p = .84) and a four-factor model with g as an indirect higher-order factor (RMSEA = .05, p = .13). Discrepancies were found between Verbal Comprehension and Processing Speed, and between Perceptual Organization and Processing Speed. Verbal Comprehension yielded the highest score, whereas the lowest scores were obtained in Processing Speed and Working Memory. These results support the use of this scale in the assessment and diagnosis of Spanish children with a high intellectual level.

Spherulitic crystal growth in the prodissoconch larval of Crassostrea virginica

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 518-519
Author(s):  
George G. Cocks ◽  
Louis Leibovitz ◽  
DoSuk D. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Crassostrea Virginica ◽  
Crystal Orientation ◽  
Developmental Changes ◽  
Gastrula Stage ◽  
Orthorhombic Crystal ◽  
Orthorhombic Crystal Structure ◽  
Stages Of Growth ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Initial Deposition

Our understanding of the structure and the formation of inorganic minerals in the bivalve shells has been considerably advanced by the use of electron microscope. However, very little is known about the ultrastructure of valves in the larval stage of the oysters. The present study examines the developmental changes which occur between the time of conception to the early stages of Dissoconch in the Crassostrea virginica(Gmelin), focusing on the initial deposition of inorganic crystals by the oysters.The spawning was induced by elevating the temperature of the seawater where the adult oysters were conditioned. The eggs and sperm were collected separately, then immediately mixed for the fertilizations to occur. Fertilized animals were kept in the incubator where various stages of development were stopped and observed. The detailed analysis of the early stages of growth showed that CaCO3 crystals(aragonite), with orthorhombic crystal structure, are deposited as early as gastrula stage(Figuresla-b). The next stage in development, the prodissoconch, revealed that the crystal orientation is in the form of spherulites.

A Macintosh Interface for the Cameca Camebax-Micro Electron Microprobe

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 438-439
Author(s):  
Carl E. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microprobe ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computer Control ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Disk Storage ◽  
The Past ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Instrument Control

Over the past few years it has become apparent in our multi-user facility that the computer system and software supplied in 1985 with our CAMECA CAMEBAX-MICRO electron microprobe analyzer has the greatest potential for improvement and updating of any component of the instrument. While the standard CAMECA software running on a DEC PDP-11/23+ computer under the RSX-11M operating system can perform almost any task required of the instrument, the commands are not always intuitive and can be difficult to remember for the casual user (of which our laboratory has many). Given the widespread and growing use of other microcomputers (such as PC’s and Macintoshes) by users of the microprobe, the PDP has become the “oddball” and has also fallen behind the state-of-the-art in terms of processing speed and disk storage capabilities. Upgrade paths within products available from DEC are considered to be too expensive for the benefits received. After using a Macintosh for other tasks in the laboratory, such as instrument use and billing records, word processing, and graphics display, its unique and “friendly” user interface suggested an easier-to-use system for computer control of the electron microprobe automation. Specifically a Macintosh IIx was chosen for its capacity for third-party add-on cards used in instrument control.

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