ABSTRACT
Science education is critical to developing future talent among K-12 students to advance the human experience and create new innovations in solving diverse problems spanning across medical improvements, renewable energy, novel materials, global security, agricultural processes, mechanical refinements. In understanding school efforts and various programs, the following key terms used in science education research publications should be defined for shared meaning. In 2015, the National Association for Gifted Children created a task force on talent development to propose the concept of talent development as a significant theoretical framework in the field of gifted education. The excellence gap refers to the variability of academic performance between groups of students at advanced levels of achievement. Excellence gaps can be determined by viewing subgroup performance at the 90th percentile. To reduce excellence gaps, most researchers recommend front-loading as an early and continuous intervention as well as a Talent Search model that utilizes universal screening and expands the model to cast a wider net.
