Exceptionally Gifted Students in Their School Years — Part 1 of 5

Introduction to Level Three Longitudinal Study Results for 9 Exceptionally Gifted Youngsters

Level Three — Exceptionally Gifted — individuals are all in the 99th percentile of the intellectual continuum. So are Levels Four and Five. But you will see more and more differences between each Level as we move through that continuum. Being at the 99th percentile intellectually in some or all things, doesn’t mean you are exactly like someone else in that range.

I’ve learned throughout 30 years of gathering information to explain giftedness through the lifespan — based on the high intelligence continuum — that very few of my subjects themselves read the entire finished product.

My doctoral dissertation (1998), the first Levels of Gifted book (2005, 2009), and now The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up (2023), are studies of what it is like to be gifted at different levels. I’ve explored the subjects’ personalities, upbringings, access to what they need, what their test scores and early milestones mean and don’t mean, and their inner development stages of development, etc., and yet, many of them scroll until they find what I wrote about them. So, for those who only look for themselves, they don’t get to see how many others are like them! Why do I mention this here? Because many of you…