Olenchak named research director for world’s largest data set on gifted children
WESTMINSTER, CO - F. Richard Olenchak was appointed the new director of research for the Gifted Development Center/Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (GDC/ISAD). The GDC/ISAD data set encompasses over 6,600 gifted and multi-exceptional children who have been comprehensively assessed over the last 45 years, and represents the largest collection of research evidence on these populations. F. Richard Olenchak Olenchak is a professor of educational psychology; higher education; and gifted, creative, and talented studies in the Purdue University College of Education’s Department of Educational Studies and serves in the College’s Gifted Education Research & Resource Institute (GER2I). “My appointment to the Director of Research at GDC/ISAD enables Purdue and GER2I to have a direct link to virtually any research topic associated with high-ability assessment and services,” Olenchak said. “There are innumerable research questions associated with some of the most brilliant minds (a few with IQs exceeding 200) that the GDC/ISAD database can help answer.” Founded in 1979 at the University of Denver (DU) as the “Gifted Child Testing Service,” this intensive assessment, counseling, and clinical research center was renamed the GDC/ISAD in 1993. Having been identified as a 501c3 public nonprofit agency since 1986, the ISAD conducts research, sponsors conferences, partners with universities throughout the USA as well as internationally, and publishes Advanced Development, a peer-reviewed journal addressing topics about giftedness in adults. In 1995, GDC Director Linda Silverman, a licensed clinical and licensed counseling psychologist, donated GDC to ISAD as a subsidiary. The merged organization offers assessment and counseling services to children and families and also offers research opportunities through proposal guidelines and secured confidentiality agreements to enable graduate students and scholars to access the data set for research projects. Olenchak succeeds the late R. Frank Falk, and will hold responsibility for approving research proposals, supervising research interns and fellows, preserving and digitizing the database, publishing articles and presenting research papers at conferences based on the data, securing grants, developing research partnerships, and responding to international inquiries regarding research findings. About the Gifted Development Center/Institute for the Study of Advanced Development Since 1979, the Gifted Development Center (GDC) has served as a global leader in the assessment and development of gifted individuals of all ages. We support giftedness throughout a person’s lifespan. Through our work, we have changed the lives of over 6,600 children and their families worldwide. We also build awareness and understanding of giftedness through research, advocacy and development of national policy. Source: F. Richard Olenchak, [email protected]; and Linda Silverman, Gifted Development Center Director, [email protected] The post Olenchak named research director for world’s largest data set on gifted children appeared first on Purdue University College of Education.
WESTMINSTER, CO - F. Richard Olenchak was appointed the new director of research for the Gifted Development Center/Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (GDC/ISAD). The GDC/ISAD data set encompasses over 6,600 gifted and multi-exceptional children who have been comprehensively assessed over the last 45 years, and represents the largest collection of research evidence on these populations.
Olenchak is a professor of educational psychology; higher education; and gifted, creative, and talented studies in the Purdue University College of Education’s Department of Educational Studies and serves in the College’s Gifted Education Research & Resource Institute (GER2I).
“My appointment to the Director of Research at GDC/ISAD enables Purdue and GER2I to have a direct link to virtually any research topic associated with high-ability assessment and services,” Olenchak said. “There are innumerable research questions associated with some of the most brilliant minds (a few with IQs exceeding 200) that the GDC/ISAD database can help answer.”
Founded in 1979 at the University of Denver (DU) as the “Gifted Child Testing Service,” this intensive assessment, counseling, and clinical research center was renamed the GDC/ISAD in 1993. Having been identified as a 501c3 public nonprofit agency since 1986, the ISAD conducts research, sponsors conferences, partners with universities throughout the USA as well as internationally, and publishes Advanced Development, a peer-reviewed journal addressing topics about giftedness in adults.
In 1995, GDC Director Linda Silverman, a licensed clinical and licensed counseling psychologist, donated GDC to ISAD as a subsidiary. The merged organization offers assessment and counseling services to children and families and also offers research opportunities through proposal guidelines and secured confidentiality agreements to enable graduate students and scholars to access the data set for research projects.
Olenchak succeeds the late R. Frank Falk, and will hold responsibility for approving research proposals, supervising research interns and fellows, preserving and digitizing the database, publishing articles and presenting research papers at conferences based on the data, securing grants, developing research partnerships, and responding to international inquiries regarding research findings.
About the Gifted Development Center/Institute for the Study of Advanced Development
Since 1979, the Gifted Development Center (GDC) has served as a global leader in the assessment and development of gifted individuals of all ages. We support giftedness throughout a person’s lifespan. Through our work, we have changed the lives of over 6,600 children and their families worldwide. We also build awareness and understanding of giftedness through research, advocacy and development of national policy.
Source: F. Richard Olenchak, [email protected]; and Linda Silverman, Gifted Development Center Director, [email protected]
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