Abstract:During recent years there has been a tremendous increase in the amount of attention focused on gifted children. Probably the most important reason for this increase is our national concern about possible shortages of top-level personnel, particularly in the science fields. Wolfbein (60) surveyed occupational trends and showed that the high-level occupations will need increasing proportions of the total labor force by 1965 and 1975. Wolfle (61), in a detailed and definitive survey of our potential resources of… Show more
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