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Gifted education is the specialized and systematically designed provision of curriculum, instruction, and support for learners whose demonstrated or potential abilities are significantly advanced relative to age-based expectations in one or more domains [1][2][3]. It refers to educational arrangements that use differentiated pacing, depth, complexity, and level of challenge so that high-ability learners can make appropriate academic and developmental progress [2][3]. Gifted education is characterized by formal identification procedures, domain-sensitive talent development, and instructional models such as acceleration, enrichment, curriculum compacting, and advanced learning pathways aligned with learner readiness. In educational policy and research, the term denotes a distinct field focused on meeting advanced learning needs through planned educational adaptation, rather than general instruction without targeted differentiation for high-potential learners [1][2][3].

gifted education high-ability learners talent development differentiated instruction

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  1. Rena F. Subotnik; Paula Olszewski-Kubilius; Frank C. Worrell; Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education. Psychol. Sci. Public Interest 2011, 12, 3-54. [CrossRef]
  2. Françoys Gagné; Transforming gifts into talents: the DMGT as a developmental theory1. High Abil. Stud. 2004, 15, 119-147. [CrossRef]
  3. Saiying Steenbergen-Hu; Matthew C. Makel; Paula Olszewski-Kubilius; What One Hundred Years of Research Says About the Effects of Ability Grouping and Acceleration on K–12 Students’ Academic Achievement. Rev. Educ. Res. 2016, 86, 849-899. [CrossRef]
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