Course Offerings On the Psychology and Education of the Gifted
Abstract
Course Offerings On the Psychology and Education of the Gifted SAGE Publications, Inc.1969DOI: 10.1177/001698626901300105 William G. Vassar Connecticut State Department of Education Joseph S. Renzulli Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut One of the services of the National Association of Gifted Children is a periodic survey of college and university courses dealing with the psychology and education of the gifted. The present survey is based on responses to questionnaires that were sent to all colleges and universities that reported enrollments of 500 or more students. Questionnaires also were sent to smaller institutions that award degrees in education. Registrars were requested to supply the course titles, the names of instructors, when the courses are offered (academic year or summer), the level of the courses (graduate or undergraduate and the number of semester hours credit. Of the 676 institutions responding to the survey, 71 course offerings dealing directly with the gifted and talented were reported. Several of the respondents indicated that some attention was given to the education and psychology of the gifted in general survey courses dealing with the broad range of exceptional children. The information listed below is restricted to those colleges and universities that responded to