Literature review on aspects of reviews for High Abilities/Giftedness

Abstract

Aiming to highlight research works dealing with assessment in High Abilities / Giftedness in Brazil, this study is based on the bibliographic method and it uses the Portal of Thesis and Dissertations of the Coordination of People Training of Higher Education under the chronological cut from 1989 to 2012. It is characterized as methodological constraints: a) the sequence and choice of descriptors; b) the chronological availability and full papers published in the database used; c) the content analysis of the summaries and the categorization depending on their thematic, therefore, can introduce inaccuracy or duplicity of categorization. With an overall score of eighty-two works, this study presents a division of two guiding axes. The first uses available abstracts and depicts an overview of the research, to approach the more employed issues of the year of publication. The second axis erected after the event, elects the remaining research of the first axis that specifically addresses the reviews for High Abilities/Giftedness and provides a resulting of eight research works. In the second axis complete works were investigated data such as publication year, area of expertise, level of research, theoretical reference, methodological procedures and closing remarks. At last, the need for more scientific accomplishments in the area of giftedness and in its dialogue with the psychological assessments in Brazil were considered through the analyzes and discussions, thus, raising more studies which deal with the instruments and assessment strategies which are relevant to this population.