COMPREHENSIVE EXAM (SUPERCOMP) STUDY GUIDE (updated May 18, 2023)
Students are allowed to have one 4×6 notecard as a reference when completing SuperComp.

EPSY 5601: Principles and Methods of Educational Research (12 points)

• Correlation Coefficients (interpret)
• Dependent and Independent Variables
• Experiment Characteristics
• Instrument validity and reliability (including expected Cronbach alpha reliability estimates) and the relationship between validity and reliability
• Means and Standard Deviation
• Normal curve characteristics
• Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research
• t tests and Correlations

EPSY 5710: Intro to Gifted Education and Talent Development (12 points)

• Acceleration Options
• Bloom’s Work on Talent Development
• Cluster Grouping
• Creativity Techniques
  • Brainstorming guidelines and alternative types of brainstorming
  • Creativity competitions
  • Graham Wallas’ stages
  • Guilford’s fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration
  • SCAMPER
• Elementary and Secondary Models
• Identifying Artistically Talented, Preschool/Primary, and Minority/Culturally Diverse Students
• Mentorship vs. Internship
• Multipotentiality and Asynchronous
• Parent and Gifted Child Interactions
• Parent, Peer, and Other Nomination Issues and Systems
• Perfectionism
• Sputnik Effect
• Talent Search (SMPY/CTY)
• Underachievement (Characteristics and Solutions)

EPSY 5720: Developing Schoolwide Enrichment Programs (12 points)

• Characteristics of an Effective SEM Program
• Curriculum Compacting Objectives and Implementation
• “E” – Enjoyment, Engagement, and Enthusiasm+
• Enrichment Clusters
• Evaluating an Schoolwide Enrichment Model
• General Population Enrichment Services
• Lightbulb Follow Up and Intake Interviews
• Operation Houndstooth+
• Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students (SRBCSS) Proper Use
• SEM Services (Which Students Receive Which)
• Status vs. Action Information+
• Student Product Assessment Form (SPAF)
• Talent Pool Student Identification and Services
• Three Ring Conception and Creative Productivity
• Total Talent Portfolio (TTP) Features and Uses
• Type I Delivery and Debriefing
• Type II Scope and Sequence and Types
• Type II General vs. Methodological
• Type III (Roles of Students and Teachers)

EPSY 5740: Strategies for Differentiation the Grade Level Curriculum (12 points)

• Anchor Activities
• Compacting
• Differentiation of content, process, product to respond to readiness, interest, and learning profile differences
• Early Finishers
• Expert Groups
• Features of differentiation for gifted and advanced learners
• Flexible grouping
• Learning styles and learning preferences
• Linkages of assessment and differentiation
• Meaningful and respectful tasks
• RAFT
• Sample differentiation strategies
• Tiered assignments
• Contributions of
  • Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Sandra Kaplan
  • Rick Wormeli
  • Joyce VanTassel-Baska

EPSY 5750: Enhancing Creativity in the Classroom (12 points)

• Big Five Personality Characteristics and Creativity
• Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation for Creativity
• Creative Metacognition
• Consensual Assessment Technique
• Examples of Creative Affordance
• Definition of Creativity
• Divergent Thinking Tests
• Divergent Thinking Measurement
• Benefits of the Arts
• Overcoming Creative Blocks
• Four “C” Model of Creativity (big, little, mini, pro)
• Functional Creativity
• Intelligence Associated with Creativity
• Mental Illness and Creativity
• Creative Problem Solving Processes
• 4Ps — Person, Process, Product, Press

EPSY 5760: Improving Students’ Thinking Skills (12 points)

• Cultures for Thinking to Encourage Student Discourse
• Encouraging Questioning
• Encouraging Student Self-Reflection of Learning
• Ensuring Learning is Authentic to the Discipline
• Fostering Positive Classroom Culture
• Fostering Thinking Dispositions and Intellectual Traits
• Integrating New Knowledge with Prior Knowledge
• Knowledge Production Emphasis in Designing Curriculum
• Routines, Strategies, and Cueing to Support Thinking
• Scaffolding Student Thinking
• Teaching Thinking Explicitly
• Thinking Like a Disciplinarian

EPSY 5780: Social Emotional Components of Giftedness and Talent Development (12 points)

• Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory
• Culturally Diverse Students’ Issues
• Debrowski’s Theory of Emotional Development
• Gross’ Sure Shelter Trusted Friends
• Hebert’s Theory of Contextual Influences
• Hewitt and Flett’s Three Dimensional Model of Perfectionism
• Renzulli’s Houndstooth Theory
• Rimm’s Trifocal Model of Underachievement
• Siegle and McCoach’s Achievement Orientation Model of Underachievement
• Snyder and Linnenbrink-Garcia’s Developmental Person-Centered Approach Model
• Traits of Giftedness
• Twice-Exceptional Students’ Issues
• Underachievers and Selective Achievers

EPSY 5194: Seminar (10 points total))

Gifted Education Journal Editors (1 point)

• • Gifted Child Quarterly
  • Gifted Child Today
  • Roeper Review
  • Journal for the Education of the Gifted
  • Journal of Advanced Academics

Professional gifted organizations and purpose (1 point)

• • NAGC
  • CEC-TAG
  • SENG
  • ECHA

Conceptions of Giftedness Quotes (5 points)

• James Borland
• Linda Brody and Julian Stanley
• Carolyn Callahan and Erin Miller
• Tracy Cross and Larry Coleman
• John Feldhusen
• Francoys Gagné
• Ed Gordon and Beatrice Bridglall
• Sally Reis
• Joe Renzulli
• Nancy Robinson
• Dean Keith Simonton
• Robert Sternberg
• Joyce VanTassel-Baska

Triad Trainer (3 points)

• Importance of the first five minutes of a presentation
• Use of visuals, hammers, and system charts in presentations
• The role of seeing and hearing in learning and remembering
• Establishing speaker credibility
• Content, Organization, and Delivery (C.O.D.) factors in presentations

Names (Contributions of…) (6 points)

• • Susan Assouline
  • Alexinia Baldwin
  • Susan Baum
  • George Betts
  • Alfred Binet
  • Carolyn Callahan
  • Nic Colangelo
  • Kazimierz Dąbrowski
  • John Feldhusen
  • Donna Ford
  • Mary Frasier
  • James Gallagher
  • Francis Galton
  • Howard Gardner
  • Marcia Gentry
  • J. P. Guilford
  • Tom Hébert
  • Leta Hollingworth
  • Sandra Kaplan
  • James Kulik
  • Sidney Marland
  • Paula Olszewski-Kubilius
  • Harry Passow
  • Jonathan Plucker
  • Sally Reis
  • Joseph Renzulli
  • Sylvia Rimm
  • Karen Rogers
  • Del Siegle
  • Charles Spearman
  • Julian Stanley
  • Robert Sternberg
  • Rena Subotnik
  • Lewis Terman
  • Louis Thurstone
  • E. Paul Torrance
  • Don Treffinger
  • Frank Worrell