Abstract
Many students are pursuing the path that Stanley and the talent search programs have recommended—they are taking challenging courses and supplementing them with stimulating extracurricular activities and summer programs. Schools must do a better job of identifying talent; they must acknowledge, and respond to, individual differences in students' learning levels and educational needs; and they must help students access the extensive smorgasbord of learning opportunities that can develop their talents and keep their hunger for learning alive. Above-grade-level assessments are the hallmark of the talent searches, having successfully raised the ceiling to identify advanced reasoning abilities. Throughout the 1970s, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) sponsored talent searches where seventh and eighth graders took the School Admission Test as an above-grade-level test of mathematical reasoning. The Study of Exceptional Talent is an outgrowth of SMPY's efforts to provide counseling to top-scoring talent search participants.
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