GIFTED PRAXIS STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act - ✔✔1988 - only federal program
that addresses the needs of the nation's 3 million gifted and talented students.
-provides federal support for demonstration programs at a national research center on
the gifted and talented
- provides support for competitive grants to institutions of higher education and state
and local school districts to develop and expand models serving students who are
underrepresented in gifted and talented programs
-provides support for competitive grants for state agencies and school districts to
enhance gifted education curricula and programs
*chronically underfunded
✔✔Federal definition for giftedness - ✔✔There is not a federal definition for giftedness;
it is up to the states
✔✔National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) - ✔✔Works to support those who
enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education,
advocacy, community building, and research.
✔✔Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) - ✔✔The scholarly journal of the National Association
for Gifted Children. Since 1957, it has published manuscripts offering new information
and creative insights about giftedness and talent development in the context of the
school, the home, and the wider society.
✔✔Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) - ✔✔offers a continuum of services including
Type I (exploration), II (group training and activities), and III (investigation of true
problems) enrichment and is one of the most widely used gifted education curriculum
models.
*Renzulli and Reis
✔✔Talents Unlimited Model - ✔✔based on Calvin W. Taylor's Talents Model for
teaching, and J.P. Guilford's work on the nature of intelligence.
a teacher training model designed to help educators improve the talents of students.
This program promotes problem solving and critical thinking skills through six focus
areas: academic, product thinking, communication, forecasting, decision making,
planning.
✔✔Perdue Three-Stages Enrichment Model - ✔✔an enrichment model designed for a
select group of gifted students, and is generally used in a pull-out context. As suggested
by the name, the model has three stages: the development of divergent and convergent
thinking skills, the development of creative problem solving skills, and the development
of independent study skills
, ✔✔Parallel Curriculum Model - ✔✔a curriculum modification strategy to meet the needs
of gifted students in terms of depth, complexity, and novelty. The model has four
simultaneous pathways of development: Core or Basic Curriculum, Curriculum of
Connections, Curriculum or Practice, and Curriculum Identity
✔✔Positive disintegration - ✔✔Unlike mainstream psychology, the idea views
psychological tension and anxiety as necessary for personal growth. These
"disintegrative" processes are "positive," whereas people who fail to go through positive
disintegration may stop at "primary integration," possessing individuality but
nevertheless lacking an autonomous personality and remaining impressionable.
*Dabrowski
✔✔Overexcitabilities - ✔✔Dabrowski; tendency for gifted students to experience
enhanced intensity. Areas are psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and
emotional.
✔✔Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT) - ✔✔A delineation
between gifts (inherited) and talents (developed) -- (Natural: intellectual, creativity,
socioaffective, sociomotor) + (Talents: academic, arts, business, leisure, social
affection, sports, and technology)
✔✔Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Model - ✔✔an instructional model that focuses
deeper understanding and more complex knowledge.
✔✔Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Icons - ✔✔language of the discipline, essential
details, patterns, rules, big idea, ethics, change over time, across disciplines,
unanswered questions, trends, multiple perspectives
✔✔acceleration for gifted students - ✔✔-AP
-Continuous Progress curriculum with flexible pacing
-dual or concurrent enrollment in higher grades/schools
-Curriculum Compacting covering material in less time
-Early Entrance
-Skipping grades
-Subject accelerations
✔✔compacting for gifted students - ✔✔Curriculum Compacting is an instructional
strategy designed for educators seeking to make appropriate curricular adjustments for
students who can demonstrate mastery (pretest) in any curricular area and at any grade
level, replacing content students know with new content, enrichment options, or other
activities.
✔✔differentiating for gifted students - ✔✔Can differentiate for content, process or
product.
*create tiered assignments
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act - ✔✔1988 - only federal program
that addresses the needs of the nation's 3 million gifted and talented students.
-provides federal support for demonstration programs at a national research center on
the gifted and talented
- provides support for competitive grants to institutions of higher education and state
and local school districts to develop and expand models serving students who are
underrepresented in gifted and talented programs
-provides support for competitive grants for state agencies and school districts to
enhance gifted education curricula and programs
*chronically underfunded
✔✔Federal definition for giftedness - ✔✔There is not a federal definition for giftedness;
it is up to the states
✔✔National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) - ✔✔Works to support those who
enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education,
advocacy, community building, and research.
✔✔Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) - ✔✔The scholarly journal of the National Association
for Gifted Children. Since 1957, it has published manuscripts offering new information
and creative insights about giftedness and talent development in the context of the
school, the home, and the wider society.
✔✔Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) - ✔✔offers a continuum of services including
Type I (exploration), II (group training and activities), and III (investigation of true
problems) enrichment and is one of the most widely used gifted education curriculum
models.
*Renzulli and Reis
✔✔Talents Unlimited Model - ✔✔based on Calvin W. Taylor's Talents Model for
teaching, and J.P. Guilford's work on the nature of intelligence.
a teacher training model designed to help educators improve the talents of students.
This program promotes problem solving and critical thinking skills through six focus
areas: academic, product thinking, communication, forecasting, decision making,
planning.
✔✔Perdue Three-Stages Enrichment Model - ✔✔an enrichment model designed for a
select group of gifted students, and is generally used in a pull-out context. As suggested
by the name, the model has three stages: the development of divergent and convergent
thinking skills, the development of creative problem solving skills, and the development
of independent study skills
, ✔✔Parallel Curriculum Model - ✔✔a curriculum modification strategy to meet the needs
of gifted students in terms of depth, complexity, and novelty. The model has four
simultaneous pathways of development: Core or Basic Curriculum, Curriculum of
Connections, Curriculum or Practice, and Curriculum Identity
✔✔Positive disintegration - ✔✔Unlike mainstream psychology, the idea views
psychological tension and anxiety as necessary for personal growth. These
"disintegrative" processes are "positive," whereas people who fail to go through positive
disintegration may stop at "primary integration," possessing individuality but
nevertheless lacking an autonomous personality and remaining impressionable.
*Dabrowski
✔✔Overexcitabilities - ✔✔Dabrowski; tendency for gifted students to experience
enhanced intensity. Areas are psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and
emotional.
✔✔Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT) - ✔✔A delineation
between gifts (inherited) and talents (developed) -- (Natural: intellectual, creativity,
socioaffective, sociomotor) + (Talents: academic, arts, business, leisure, social
affection, sports, and technology)
✔✔Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Model - ✔✔an instructional model that focuses
deeper understanding and more complex knowledge.
✔✔Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Icons - ✔✔language of the discipline, essential
details, patterns, rules, big idea, ethics, change over time, across disciplines,
unanswered questions, trends, multiple perspectives
✔✔acceleration for gifted students - ✔✔-AP
-Continuous Progress curriculum with flexible pacing
-dual or concurrent enrollment in higher grades/schools
-Curriculum Compacting covering material in less time
-Early Entrance
-Skipping grades
-Subject accelerations
✔✔compacting for gifted students - ✔✔Curriculum Compacting is an instructional
strategy designed for educators seeking to make appropriate curricular adjustments for
students who can demonstrate mastery (pretest) in any curricular area and at any grade
level, replacing content students know with new content, enrichment options, or other
activities.
✔✔differentiating for gifted students - ✔✔Can differentiate for content, process or
product.
*create tiered assignments
