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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1992

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JOCKEY CLUB DONATION FOR GIFTED EDUCATION RESEARCH

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MILLION FOR THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB HAS DONATED $1.16

RESPONSE TO THE NEED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A PILOT PROJECT IN RESEARCH ON GIFTED EDUCATION IN HONG KONG.

UNDER THE PROJECT, IDENTIFICATION TOOLS WOULD BE TESTED FOR ACADEMICALLY GIFTED CHILDREN IN LOCAL SCHOOLS.

ADAPTED AND

THE EDUCATION ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (FRIDAY), A SPOKESMAN FOR

THE EDUCATION COMMISSION, IN ITS DEPARTMENT SAID

REPORT NO.

RECOGNISED

LACK THE

OF DATA ON THESE

AS CHILDREN

WELL IDENTIFICATION TOOLS AND AVAILABLE PROGRAMMES FOR THEM.

AS

IT WAS

HOPED THAT

THROUGH THIS

OTHER PROJECT, GIFTED CHILDREN IN HONG

RELATED KONG

INFORMATION AND DATA ON ACADEMICALLY COULD BE GATHERED, HE SAID.

THE

RESEARCH

WORK WOULD

BE

CARRIED

OUT BY

THE

TERTIARY

INSTITUTES, PROBABLY IN THE 1992-93 SCHOOL YEAR.

LETTER TO ALL TERTIARY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WILL SEND A

THEM ΤΟ INSTITUTES AND THE HONG KONG PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO INVITE APPLY FOR THE RESEARCH FUND.

AN ADVISORY

FROM

HE ADDED THAT REPRESENTATIVES

COMMITTEE WOULD BE FORMED WITH THE EDUCATION AND MANPOWER BRANCH AND THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO OVERSEE THE

PROJECT, RESEARCH

INCLUDING VETTING THE PROPOSALS FROM THE TERTIARY INSTITUTES.

TOOL WAS THE HONG KONG ADAPTED AND STANDARDISED THE EDUCATION

AT PRESENT, THE MAIN IDENTIFICATION WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN, LOCALLY FROM 1978 TO

IN 1982 BY

DEPARTMENT WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, THE HONG KONG COLLABORATION PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, AND THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.

INTELLECTUAL

SO

OF

ON INFORMATION "IT GIVES RELIABLE AND OBJECTIVE ABILITY IN DETERMINING WHETHER A CHILD IS ACADEMICALLY GIFTED, BUT

NO ESTABLISHED LOCAL TOOLS FOR FAR THERE ARE

ASSESSING CREATIVE

THINKING SKILL WHICH

CHARACTERISTIC ESSENTIAL GIFTEDNESS," HE SAID.

IS ALSO AN

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