天才儿童,又称超常儿童,是指那些智力发展明显超出同龄人一般发展水平的儿童。据教育心理学家估计,这样的儿童约占儿童总数的3％。由于对超常儿童的鉴别标准不同,在不同国家这一比例也不一样。在美国,据粗略统计,这一比例为3％～5％,即130万超常儿童。50年代后期,苏联人造卫星发射的成功,引起美国在教育方面的变革,其中之一就是国会 Talented children, also called “extraordinary children,” refer to children whose intellectual development has significantly exceeded the general level of their peers. Educational psychologists estimate that such children make up about 3% of the total number of children. Due to the different standards for the identification of children with extraordinary, in different countries this ratio is not the same. In the United States, according to rough statistics, this proportion is 3% to 5%, or 1.3 million extraordinary children. The success of the Soviet satellite launch in the late 1950s led to a revolution in education in the United States. One of them was the congressional