The Report of the Senate Select Committee on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children

INDEX

References in the index are to the paragraph numbers of the Report or to the Preface or Appendices..

Abbott-Chapman, Dr J. 6.26, 6.50, 8.8
Aboriginal children 6.1, 6.31-9, 7.11, 7.34, 7.36
acceleration 2.15, 4.43, 4.77-85
ACER see Australian Council for Educational Research
achievement 1.2, 9.10
achievement tests 2.37, 3.25, 3.34, 3.45
ACIN see Australian Curriculum Information Network
Advanced Placement courses 4.88
agricultural schools 4.46, 4.49
ANZAAS/Hammersley Iron Scholarships 4.66
aptitude tests 3.25, 3.34-5
artistic ability 1.2, 1.11
Assistance to Isolated Children Scheme 6.57
associations for Gifted Children 2.28-9, 2.44, 5.25, 5.31-3, 9.11 see also names of specific organisations
Athens, gifted education 2.2
Australia, federal role in education 2.27, 7.2-3
Australia, gifted education 2.6-33, 4.1-85, 7.6-17
Australia, national interest 1.17, 9.4
Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented 2.28, 5.25, 6.55
Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers 8.14
Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority Appendix 3
Australian/Commonwealth Bank National Art Awards 4.66
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) 6.5, 6.25
Australian Curriculum Information Network (ACIN) 7.55-6
Australian Education Council 7.4
Australian Education Index 7.55
Australian ethos 1.7
Australian Institute of Sport 1.8
Australian Scholastic Aptitude Test 3.34-5
Australian Schools Cataloguing Information Service 7.55
Austudy 6.27
   
Balga, PEAC program 6.34-8
Bartak, Dr L. 4.68-9, 5.38, 7.54, 8.6
Beazley, Hon. Kim Sr 1.14
Beazley Report 2.19
Bellerive Primary School Preface
BHP Science Prize 4.66
Biaggi, Mario 2.39
Blackwood Junior Primary School Preface
Blakers, Professor A.L. 4.60-1, 4.63, 4.65, 5.6, 5.34
boarding schools 6.47, 6.57
Bond, M. 5.27, 7.12, 7.54
Boyd, Dr R.M 5.2, 5.14, 5.17, 6.17, 6.29
Braggett, Dr E. 2.6, 2.10, 3.16, 4.18, 6.20
Branchi, E. 5.19
Brisbane, G. 8.7
British Schools Council 3.10-1
   
camps 4.11, 6.53
Canberra Times 4.66
Carey Baptist Grammar School 4.75, 5.30
Carlisle, K 5.1
Carss, M 4.16, 5.41
Catholic schools, gifted education 2.31-2
CDC see Curriculum Development Council
Children's Services Office, South Australia 4.70, 5.1
China, gifted education 2.2
chronological peers see peers, age
Cloverdale PEAC Preface
cluster groups 4.13, 4.20-4, 6.34-7
cluster groups, PEAC 4.21-4, 6.24-7
cluster groups, SEAC 4.23
Comerford, T. 5.1-2, 7.13
Commonwealth Schools Commission 2.6,2.11, 2.27, 3.10, 3.16, 4.3, 4.62, 6.3, 6.27, 6.37, 7.3-17, 7.26, 7.34, 8.3-4
Commonwealth Schools Commission, Advisory Group on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children 6.6, 7.5-6, 7.11-3, 9.13
Commonwealth Schools Commission, Country Areas Program 6.56
Commonwealth Schools Commission, Curriculum Development Council 7.2, 7.52-3, 7.55-6
Commonwealth Schools Commission, Projects of National Significance 6.39, 7.6, 7.11, 9.13
Commonwealth Teaching Service 7.41
Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission 7.26
competitions 4.65-7
comprehensive schools 2.8-12, 4.30, 4.43-4, 4.50-1, 5.8
computer education 4.21, 4.73, 6.14, 6.36-7
Conservatorium High School 4.48-9
consultants 4.9
continuity 4.19, 5.30, 9.8
correspondence schools 4.11, 6.48, 6.51-3, 6.57
counselling 2.29, 4.68, 5.4, 5.17, 5.32-3, 6.57
Country Areas Program 6.56
Cranston, N. 5.34
creativity 3.14, 3.19, 3.23
creativity tests 3.25
Creed, K. 4.3
CSC see Commonwealth Schools Commission
curriculum 4.32, 4.73
curriculum compaction 4.82
curriculum development 7.52-6
curriculum for country areas 6.56
curriculum, male orientation of 6.13
curriculum, need for flexibility of 9.12
curriculum, United States 2.37
Curriculum Development Council 7.2, 7.52-3, 7.55-6
   
Darling Downs College of Advanced Education 7.20, 7.25
Department of Education 6.10, 6.54, 6.57
Deppeler, J. 7.54
disabled children 2.40, 6.40-5, 7.11
disabled children, educational funding needs 1.15
Disadvantaged Schools Program 6.5, 6.27
Dixon, A. 7.53
Duncraig Senior High School Preface
Durston, B. 2.33
   
Early Childhood Education Council of New South Wales 5.1
Early Entrance Program 4.88
Early Literacy In-Service Course (ELIC) 7.32
Eastern Europe, gifted education 4.86
education, Commonwealth government policy 7.1-17, 9.3
education, history of 2.3-4
education, of gifted children, Commonwealth role 7.1-17, 9.13-15
education, purposes of 2.1, 4.16
Education Department of Western Australia 4.30-6, 4.45, 6.4, 6.24, 6.34-7, 7.24, 9.3
Education of Gifted and Talented Children: Australian Provision 4.2
Education of Gifted and Talented Children from Populations with Special Needs 6.3
elitism 3.13, 4.42
Endean, L. 4.16, 6.16
enrichment 2.15, 2.31, 4.72-6
enrichment, out-of-school classes 2.29, 4.58-9
equality of opportunity 8.12, 9.6
Evans, P.M. 5.34
excellence, individual 1.7, 8.2
excellence, pursuit of 8.1-15
Explorers' Unlimited 2.28, 5.1
extra-curricular activities 4.57-67, 6.28, 9.11
   
Federation of Parents and Citizens Association of New South Wales 4.4, 4.59, 5.18, 8.3-4
funding for gifted education 4.63-4, 7.6-11, 7.34, 7.54
   
Gallagher, James 5.19
Gaymer, Dr R. 4.85
Gifted and Talented Children's Association of Western Australia 3.41, 8.6
Gifted and Talented Resource Centre, Hobart Preface
gifted children, behaviour 4.37, 4.80, 5.1-5, 5.20-2, 9.7
gifted children, counselling 5.4, 5.17
gifted children, differentiated from the non-gifted 1.2
gifted children, educationally disadvantaged 1.16
gifted children, identification 5.2
gifted children, lack of friends 5.8
gifted children, self-recognition 3.44
gifted children, social needs 4.11, 4.84, 5.3, 5.6-9
Gifted Children Task Force 2.15, 4.55, 4.85
giftedness 1.1-5
giftedness, definition 3.1-23
giftedness, distinction from talent 1.6
giftedness, educational provision for 2.1-44, 4.1-90
giftedness, measurement 1.5
giftedness, research into 2.5
giftedness, stability 1.4
gifts see artistic ability, intellectual ability, leadership ability, musical ability, sporting ability
Giles, J. 4.46, 7.15-6
girls 6.7-13, 7.11, 7.34, 7.46
girls, in gifted programs 6.10
girls, school retention of 6.8
girls, subject choice 6.9
Goldberg, Professor Miriam 1.11, 3.7, 3.18, 4.27, 7.5
'Golden Quill' award 4.66
Great Britain, gifted education 2.40-4
Great Britain, Plowden Report 2.40
Great Britain, Warnock Report 2.40
Gross, M. 4.78, 5.16, 7.31, 7.47
Guilford, Professor J.P. 3.9
   
Harris, R.W. 6.27
Harslett, M. 6.14, 7.8
Hawthorndene Primary School Preface
Higher Education 9.3
Hudson, H.A. 5.39, 8.6
Humanist Society of Victoria 5.42
   
identification of giftedness 3.24-45, 5.1-2, 6.4, 9.10
identification of giftedness, in Aboriginal populations 6.32, 6.35
identification of giftedness, in disabled children 6.42
identification of giftedness, teacher training in 7.27
identification of giftedness, Western Australia 2.18-20
Identifying High-Ability Disadvantaged Students 6.4
Imison, K. 5.25, 6.55, 7.25
individual learning programs 4.4, 4.6-11, 9.11
intellectual ability 1.2, 1.9, 1.11, 3.11-2, 4.1, 4.77
intelligence tests 2.4, 3.4-8, 3.26-32
intelligence tests, bias 3.6, 6.15, 6.28
intelligence tests, group tests 3.26-8
intelligence tests, individual tests 3.29
intelligence tests, non-verbal 6.16
intelligence tests, Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 2.5, 3.3, 3.29
intelligence tests, Weschler tests 3.29, 3.31
International Mathematical Olympiad 4.65
IQ 2.5, 3.4, 3.21, 3.29, 3.36, 4.87
isolated children 6.46-7
Isolated Children's Parents Association, W.A. 6.57
Issues in the Education of Gifted and Talented Children in Australia and the United States 3.7
   
James Ruse Agricultural High School 4.49, 5.11
John Curtin Senior High School Preface
Johnson, L.W. 4.62
Joint Review of Teacher Education 7.26, 7.30
   
Kearins, Dr Judith 6.35
Keller, Helen 6.40
Kelly Report 2.20, 4.25, Appendix 3
Kelvin Grove High School 4.47
Kulik, J.A. 4.80
   
Lautrec, Toulouse 6.40
leadership ability 1.2, 3.12-4
Learning Enrichment Centre, Norman Park 2.32
Leder, Dr Gilah 6.41
Lethbridge, N. 3.41, 8.6
Loan Video Program 6.54
Long, P.E. 4.75
Louden, Dr L.W. 7.53
lunchtime clubs 4.57
Lynwood Senior High School Preface
   
Macdonald, C. 4.27
Macdonald Report 2.13, 3.16, 4.28
Mackenzie, M. 4.68, 5.19
mainstreaming 4.8-10, 4.16, 4.79, 8.15
Making the Future 8.3
Markham, M.J. 4.52
Marland Report 2.35, 3.12-6
Marshall, Alan 6.40
Marshall, Deborah 5.7
Martin, L.F. 6.19
master teachers 7.41-4
mathematical ability, individual programming for 4.6
mathematical ability, needs of students with 4.44, 4.61, 8.14
mathematical ability, summer schools 4.60-3, 5.6
mathematical ability, tests for 3.35
mathematics 2.38, 4.53, 6.9
mathematics, teaching of 5.34, 5.41, 7.34, 7.44, 8.14
McDonald, Annie 6.42
McDonald College 4.52, 5.7, 5.11
mentors 4.43, 4.53-6, 6.22, 6.42
Mercer, K. 8.8
merit pay 2.38, 7.41-4
Michael, I. 5.43-5
migrant children 6.14-22
migrant children, fluency in English 6.19
migrant children, positive discrimination in favour of 6.21
Mitchell College of Advanced Education 7.23
mixed-ability teaching 4.8. 4.39, 8.14
Monash University 7.31
Mossenson, Dr D. 4.5, 6.38, 7.5, 7.9, 7.45, 7.53
motivation 3.3, 3.15, 3.22, 4.10, 4.32, 5.15
Moulton, J. 7.46
multiculturalism 6.20
Murphy, B. 4.7, 4.15, 4.83, 5.40, 6.16, 6.18, 6.29, 8.13
music schools 4.45-6, 4.48
music therapy 6.43
musical ability 1.11, 3.45, 4.53, 5.24
   
A Nation at Risk 1.16, 2.36-7, 8.2-3, 8.11
National Aboriginal Education Committee (NAEC) 6.13
National Association for Curriculum Enrichment and Extension 2.44
National Association for Gifted Children 2.44
National Commission on Excellence in Education 1.16, 2.36-7, 8.2-3,8.11
National Council of Independent Schools (NCIS) 2.33, 5.34, 5.42, 7.13, 8.4, 8.7
national interest 1.17, 9.4
national Mathematics Summer Schools 4.60-3, 5.6, 7.6
National Policy for the Education of Girls in Australian Schools 6.13
NCIS see National Council of Independent Schools
New South Wales Department of Education 2.13, 3.10, 3.16, 4.25, 4.42, 4.50, 7.31-2, Appendix 3
Newsome, Dr Rex 6.42
Newtown High School 4.50
non-government schools 2.30-3, 4.20, 4.35, 5.28-9, 7.2, see also Catholic Schools
Northern Territory Department of Education Appendix 3
   
Opportunity Classes 3.4, 4.25-7
   
PACE see Parents Active in Children's Education
Paramanathan, S. 7.12
Parents Active in Children's Education 4.84-5, 5.30
parents of the gifted 5.20-33
parents of the gifted, ability to recognise giftedness 3.41-2, 5.24
parents of the gifted, attitudes 4.83, 5.17 , 8.7
parents of the gifted, counselling 5.32-3
parents of the gifted, effects of a gifted child on 5.20-1, 5.26
parents of the gifted, interactions with schools 5.27-30
parents of the gifted, pressure from 5.23
PDP see Professional Development Program
PEAC see Primary Extension and Challenge
peer pressure 5.10-2
peers, age 1.3, 4.25, 5.9-12, 6.48
peers, identification of giftedness by 3.43
peers, similarly talented 4.6, 4.11, 4.15, 4.32, 4.61, 5.6-7
Peninsula Enrichment Program 6.14, 6.28
performing arts 1.2, 1.11, 4.44, 4.51
performing arts, schools 4.44, 4.47 , 4.50, 4.52, 4.87
Pirozzo, R. 5.12 , 5.14 , 6.14, 6.28
Plowden Report 2.40
policy statements Appendix 3
political lobbying 2.29, 4.85
Potential Trust 2.44
pre-schools 4.68-71, 9.8
Primary Extension and Challenge 2.21, 4.21-2
Primary Extension and Challenge, Balga program 6.34-7
primary schools 4.25-7, 4.69, 5.16, 5.40, see also names of specific schools
primary schools, early entry to 4.78
Princes Street Primary Schools Preface
Print, Dr M. 3.2
priorities, funding 1.16
Priority Exceptional Students Study (PrESS) 6.4
Priority Schools Program 6.5
Professional Development Program (PDP) 7.33-4
Programs for Gifted and Talented Children 4.3
psychomotor ability 3.12-4
   
Quality of Education Review Committee 7.38, 8.12
Queensland, gifted education 2.32, 4.47 , 6.48, Appendix 3
Queensland Association for Gifted and Talented Children 2.28-9, 4.68 , 5.19, 5.27, 5.31-3, 7.12, 7.54
Queensland Department of Education 5.34, 7.53, Appendix 3
   
Raboczi, C. 4.11
Renzulli, Professor Joseph 3.19-23, 6.35
research into gifted education 2.5, 4.83-4, 7.45-51
research into gifted education, national centre required 7.47-51
resource development 7.52-6
retention rates 6.26, 6.50, 8.8
Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped Gifted (RAPYHT) 6.44-5
Roosevelt, Franklin 6.40
Rosenholtz, Susan 7.43
Rossmore PEAC Preface
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 4.56
rural children 6.49-50
   
Sampson, Dr Shirley 6.11-2
Schmid, Olivia 5.7
Scholastic Aptitude Test 3.35
School Assessed Ability Potential Index 6.26
school-based programs 4.5
school drop-outs 1.12
school morale 8.8
School of the Air 6.53-4
school principals 8.8
science 2.38, 4.53, 4.87 , 6.9
science, teaching of 5.41, 7.34, 7.44
secondary schools 4.28-37, 5.40, 6.50-2
secondary schools, individual programming 4.7
Secondary Extension and Challenge (SEAC) 2.41, 4.23
Secondary Special Placement Program (SSPP) 2.18, 4.30-7, 5.40
selective classes 2.7, 4.1, 4.25-36, 9.11
selective classes, criticism of 4.40-1
selective classes, evaluation of 4.27
selective classes in primary schools 4.25-7
selective classes in secondary schools 4.28-37
selective classes, Opportunity Classes 3.4, 4.25-7
selective classes, SSPP 2.18, 4.30-7, 5.40
selective schools 2.8, 2.10, 2.13, 4.1, 4.28-9. 4.42-3
Skinner, G. 5.5, 5.37
Slattery, G. 4.70, 5.1
socio-economically disadvantaged children 6.16, 6.23-30, 7.11
South Australia, gifted education 4.58, 4.74
South Australia, provision for children with special needs 4.70
South Australia, special interest centres 7.4
South Australian Association for Gifted and Talented Children 2.29 , 3.38, 4.58, 4.74, 5.16, 7.31, 7.47
South Australian Department of Education 4.71, 7.15, Appendix 3
special education 7.19
special interest centres 2.13, 4.44-52, 7.4
special interest centres, agriculture 4.46, 4.49
special interest centres, languages 4.45
special interest centres, music 4.45-6, 4.48
special interest centres, performing arts 4.44, 4.47 , 4.50, 4.52
special interest centres, visual arts 4.44
sporting ability 1.8-10, 6.2, 9.9
Srzednicki, Dr J. 5.10. 6.20
SSPP see Secondary Special Placement Program
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 2.5, 3.3, 3.29
Stanley, Professor J. 3.35
Start, Professor Brian 1.17, 4.86, 5.38, 7.47-50
State schools 4.20, 4.35, 5.29, 7.1-2, 8.8
Stephens, Dr W.M. 4.56, 6.15
streaming 4.1, 4.38-9
Strnad, H. 5.42
Structure of the Intellect Learning Ability (SOILA) 6.16
summer schools 4.60-4
Swanbourne Senior High School Preface
Sydney College of Advanced Education 7.23
   
Talent Search 2.18, 4.30, 4.45
Talented Children Program, Deakin University 5.39, 7.46
Talented, Gifted, Creative: Australian Writings 4.3
Tasmania, gifted education 5.9
Tasmania, school retention rates 6.26
Tasmanian Department of Education 7.12, 7.54, Appendix 3
teacher training, in-service 7.28-36
teacher training, pre-service 7.18-27
teacher training, United States 2.38-9, 7.24
teachers, attitudes to gifted 5.27-8, 5.35-40
teachers, encouragement of gifted 4.1, 5.34
teachers, evaluation of performance 2.37
teachers, feelings of inadequacy 4.37, 4.53, 5.36
teachers, identification of gifted 3.37-40, 6.35
teachers, morale 8.8
teachers, role 4.4, 5.34, 5.42
teachers, skills 5.41-5, 7.39, 7.41, 8.14
teleconferencing 4.11, 6.53
Terman, Lewis 2.5, 3.3
Tidswell, R. 8.3
Tindale, E. 5.42, 7.13
truancy 6.34
Turkey, gifted education 2.2
Turner, W. 7.12, 7.54
   
UHS see University High School
under-achievement 3.18, 3.39, 3.45, 4.71, 5.12-9, 5.38, 6.29, 8.13, 9.5, 9.7
under-achievement, United States 1.16
United Nations' Declaration of the the Rights of the Child 1.14
United States of America, Advanced Placement courses 4.86
United States of America, Early Entrance Program 4.88
United States of America, Gifted and Talented Education Act 1978 2.35
United States of America, gifted education 2.34-9, 4.87-9, 6.44-5
United States of America, Marland Report 2.35, 3.12-6
United States of America, National Commission on Excellence in Education 1.16, 2.36-7, 8.2-3, 8.11
United States of America, teacher training 7.24
United States of America, under-achievement 1.16
United States Office of Education 3.27
universities, choice of faculties in 6.9
universities, early entrance 4.84 , 4.88
universities, enrolments 6.8, 6.26
University High School, acceleration program 4.81-5, 5.6, 5.23, 5.30 , 5.40, 6.10. 6.18, 6.21, 8.13
University of Melbourne 7.21, 7.47, 7.49
   
Vacchini, I.F. 4.50, 7.9
values 5.9, 6.2, 6.20, 6.23-4, 6.29
Victoria, Gifted Children Committee 2.16
Victoria, Gifted Children Task Force 2.15, 4.55, 4.85 , Appendix 3
Victoria, gifted education 2.15-6, 4.20, 4.55, 4.59, 4.81-4
Victoria College 7.21
Victorian Association for Gifted and Talented Children 4.55, 4.59, 5.1, 7.13, 7.46
Victorian Computing Talent Quest 4.66
Victorian Ministry of Education 4.56, 4.81, 4.83, 6.15, 7.45, 8.5, 8.13
   
Walsh, M. 6.57
Warnock Report 2.40
Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised 3.31
Western Australia, Academic Extension Branch 2.23, 4.31
Western Australia, Beazley Report 2.19
Western Australia, Education Department of 2.17-8. 4.30-6, 4.45
Western Australia, gifted education 2.17-26, 4.30-6, 4.51, 5.29, 6.10
Western Australia, Kelly Report 2.20
Western Australia, PEAC 2.21 , 4.21-2, 6.34-7
Western Australia, SEAC 2.21 , 4.23
Western Australia, SSPP 2.18, 4.30-7
Western Australia, Talent Search 2.18, 4.30, 4.45
Western Australia, Unit Curriculum 2.24-6
Western Australian College of Advanced Education 7.22
withdrawal programs 4.12-9, 9.11
withdrawal programs, advantages of 4.14-5
withdrawal programs, criticism of 4.17
withdrawal programs, outcomes 4.15
withdrawal programs, Western Australia 2.18
World Association for Gifted and Talented Children 2.15, 7.4
Wyndham Report 2.9
   
zoning 5.28

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