Comment by g00dn3ss

I think this is mostly bogus. Consider the research presented in recent articles like:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-sm...

This division into 3 kinds of kids has an underlying assumption that kids can be classified by some innate characteristics.

Rather than putting effort into "identifying gifted students", maybe we should concentrate on finding more effective ways to teach everybody. Getting rid of grades comes to mind as one way to help convert "high achievers" into "gifted learners".