Conceptions of Giftedness edited by R. Sternberg and J. Davidson, Reviewed by Dorothy Armstrong

Abstract

Introduction:  Analytic teaching methods, like all teaching methods, are based on assumptions about the ways people learn.  We should be clear about what these assumptions are and how they mesh with current research.  What better way to do that than through the systematic study of what distinguishes successful learners - those whom society labels its gifted?