Identification of students home with high ability or giftedness: intellectual evaluation of school performance and indication by teachers

Authors

  • Lurian Dionizio Mendonça http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1734-6676
  • Olga Maria Piazentin Rolim Rodrigues Faculdade de Ciências, Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Campus de Bauru.
  • Vera Lúcia Messias Fialho Capellini Faculdade de Ciências, Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Campus de Bauru.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X24120

Keywords:

High ability or giftedness, Identification, Special Education

Abstract

This study carried out an initial identification of 259 students from elementary school with indicators of High Ability or Giftedness (AH/SD) from the application of the Test of Colored Progressive Matrices of Raven, the Academic Performance Test (TDE) and the indication of student teachers who most excelled in the classroom and in what areas. Students, 11,36% were well above average performance in Raven test and 3,86% of them had at least two superior results in TDE. Teachers indicated 33 students and the most observed characteristics were the abstract thinking ability – talent scientific-mathematical and verbal talent. For the analysis of students with indicators AH/SD there was little agreement between the instruments. Were then identified 81 student’s indicative of AH/SD, who met at least one of the criteria, i.e. be classified within the 90th percentile or more in the Raven Test, have at least two higher in the subtests of TDE or be indicated by their teachers to participate in more detailed assessments to define the diagnosis.

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Author Biographies

Lurian Dionizio Mendonça

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento e Aprendizagem da Faculdade de Ciências, Unesp, Bauru.

Olga Maria Piazentin Rolim Rodrigues, Faculdade de Ciências, Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Campus de Bauru.

Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Psicologia e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento e Aprendizagem, da Faculdade de Ciências, Unesp, Bauru.

Vera Lúcia Messias Fialho Capellini, Faculdade de Ciências, Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Campus de Bauru.

Professora Adjunto do Departamento de Educação, do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento e Aprendizagem e do Programa em Docência para a Educação Básica, da Faculdade de Ciências, Unesp, Bauru.

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Published

2017-04-11

How to Cite

Mendonça, L. D., Rodrigues, O. M. P. R., & Capellini, V. L. M. F. (2017). Identification of students home with high ability or giftedness: intellectual evaluation of school performance and indication by teachers. Special Education Magazine, 30(57), 203–218. https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X24120

Issue

Revista Educação Especial, v. 30, n. 57, jan./abr. 2017

Section

Continuous Demand

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