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 \nMiraca U. M. Gross MEd PhD AM  \nEmeritus Professor of Gifted Education: The University of New South Wales  \nAn Australian Mensa Initiative  \n2016 Australian Mensa Inc. [mensa.org.au](mensa.org.au)  \nAustralian Mensa provides this information which may be of interest to members or the public. The opinions expressed in this document are solely those of the author and not of Australian Mensa.  \nIn some ways, acceleration is a poor choice of word for an educational procedure that is a “freeing up” rather than a “pushing along”! When I want my car to go faster I press the accelerator. When I want it to slow down I press the brake. However when I accelerate a gifted child—by giving her access to a curriculum that is more suited to her needs than the curriculum of the grade she has been placed in based on her age—I am not applying pressure of any kind. Rather, I am freeing up the child so that she can learn at her natural pace and level which, for most gifted and talented students, is substantially beyond the pace and level of their age-peers!  \nAcceleration has been called “a coat of many colours” and indeed it can take many forms. For example, Janette, who shows talent in a number of school subjects, may “skip” from Year 2 to Year 4 at the end of Year 2 if she already knows the vast majority of the Year 3 work. Alternatively, if her talent principally lies in a specific subject, she may take that subject with the grade above hers—a single-subject acceleration—while  \nremaining with her own grade for other subjects. If a young child is unusually mature for her age and is already reading and counting she may be permitted to start school early. A report that focuses specifically on the types, characteristics, and outcomes of acceleration, A Nation  \nDeceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students ([nationdeceived.org](nationdeceived.org)), discusses no fewer than 18 different forms of acceleration! Some of these are described below with terms changed to match the Australian context.  \nEarly admission to kindergarten: Students enter kindergarten prior to achieving the minimum age for entry as set by their education system’s policy.  \nEarly admission to primary school: This practice can result either from skipping kindergarten or from acceleration from kindergarten to Year 1.  \nGrade-skipping: A student is considered to have grade-skipped if she is given a gradelevel placement ahead of chronological peers. Grade-skipping may occur at the beginning of, or during, the school year.  \nSubject acceleration: This practice allows students to join a higher grade for one or more specific subjects in which they show readiness for advanced instruction.  \nCombined (composite) classes: Placement in the lower grade of a class that comprises two or more consecutive grades can allow gifted students to work on one or more subjects with the older children. If the gifted student performs extremely welland gravitates strongly towards the older classmates, then whole-grade acceleration may be desirable.  \nAn Australian Mensa Initiative  \nPage 2 of 4  \nConcurrent (dual) enrolment: The student takes a course at one level and receives credit for a parallel course at a higher level (for example, taking high school algebra in algebra in a lower year of highschool, and receive credit for both the year they are in and a higher year).  \nAdvanced Placement: The student takes a course in high school which, upon passing a standardised exam, will give them credit for a subject at university.  \nCredit by examination: The student is awarded advanced standing credit (for example, in high school or university) by successfully completing some form of mastery test.  \nAcceleration in university: The student is awarded an advanced level of instruction at least a year ahead of what is customary. 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