This study is based on data collected in an enrichment program for gifted students of lower socio-economic background (forty boys and forty girls from fourth through eighth grade). Its goals were to examine our work: whether there would be an increase in intelligence from the pre- to the post-test in all the participants; how girt-participants fared in comparison with boys and whether special attention to avoid sexism would bring girls who began with a lower intelligence to show the greatest improvement of all.
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