| Acceleration | An educational approach that allows a student to cover the usual curriculum content faster.
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| Cluster grouping | The placement of 5-10 gifted and talented students with general education students, who are then taught as a group using a differentiated curriculum.
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| Convergent thinking skills | Thinking skills that involve solving problems that have correct answers.
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| Curriculum compacting | Allowing a student to skip material that he or she has already mastered.
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| Curriculum telescoping | The provision of an educational program in less time than normally planned for.
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| Differentiated curriculum | An adaptation to the standard curriculum to provide instruction at the students' appropriate level.
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| Divergent thinking skills | Thinking skills that involve solving problems for which there are no single correct answers.
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| Double-mentoring | An expert mentor provides support in the student's area of expertise and a teacher addresses the student's affective needs.
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| Dynamic assessment | A test-train-retest model used to determine how quickly and efficiently an individual learns new material.
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| Enrichment | An educational approach that involves the modification of, or addition to, the curriculum to make it richer and more varied.
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| Enrichment triad | An instructional model that includes three levels of enrichment activities. These are general exploratory activities, group training activities, and individual and small group investigations of real problems.
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| Magnet school | A school that offers specialized training in specific areas.
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| Marland definition | Definition of a gifted student stating that a gifted student should demonstrate high performance or potential in either general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative or productive thinking, leadership ability, visual and performing arts, or psychomotor ability.
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| Mentoring | The pairing of a student with an established expert.
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| Multiage and multigrade grouping | Grouping students according to their educational level, regardless of their actual age or grade.
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| Portfolio assessment | A means of determining students' achievements and abilities using a collection of their work.
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| Threshold hypothesis | The hypothesis suggesting that heredity is important in setting the intellectual potential of an individual and that the environment determines how much potential is realized.
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| Twice exceptional | A student who is both gifted and has a disability.
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| Within-class grouping | Grouping students according to their ability and teaching using a differentiated curriculum.
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| XYZ grouping | Grouping students according to their IQ.
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