When using cooperative learning, student achievement disparities within the cooperative groups should not be too severe. Cooperative learning can be effectively substituted for specialized programs and services for academically talented students. Schools should call for the elimination of ability grouping because ability grouping has negative effects on student achievement. Bright, average, and slow youngsters profit from grouping programs that adjust curriculum to the aptitude levels of the groups. Highly talented youngsters profit from work in accelerated classes as well as from an enriched curriculum.
Creativity tests are an effective means of identifying artistically gifted and talented students.
In identifying artistically gifted and talented students, attention should be paid to potential and works in progress as well as to final performance and products. Television is bad for young gifted children. Primetime, commercial television offers inadequate and inappropriate role models for gifted children. Creativity in children is a sign of and a contributor to psychological health. Parenting gifted young children is labor intensive.