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Download full textSümeyye Arkan; Sema Tan – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2025
Teachers' perceptions, attitudes, and opinions about students, curricula, or evaluation methods contribute to the development of students' talents. Thus, researchers often collect data from teachers to identify gifted students, determine educational practices to meet the students' needs and assess gifted education programs. Researchers often…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, Academically Gifted, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedCropley, Arthur J. – Roeper Review, 2000
This article argues that creativity tests are best thought of as measures of creative potential because creative achievement depends on additional factors not measured by creativity tests, such as technical skill, field knowledge, mental health, and opportunity. The need for assessment to be based on several tests is emphasized. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Creative Thinking, Creativity
The Use of a Performance Assessment for Identifying Gifted Lebanese Students: Is DISCOVER Effective?
Direct linkSarouphim, Ketty M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of DISCOVER, a performance- based assessment in identifying gifted Lebanese students. The sample consisted of 248 students (121 boys, 127 girls) from Grades 3-5 at two private schools in Beirut, Lebanon. Students were administered DISCOVER and the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Private Schools, Academically Gifted, Performance Based Assessment
Peer reviewedMacRae, LaDonna; Lupart, Judy L. – Roeper Review, 1991
This article summarizes Renzulli's Revolving Door Identification Model, an approach to the identification of gifted and talented students. It then investigates reasons for its popularity, addresses criticisms leveled against the model, and assesses its validity and utility for identifying and serving gifted students. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted
Peer reviewedStinespring, John A. – Roeper Review, 1991
A culture-specific approach to identifying artistic talent in African-American students is presented, called Tactuality. Tactuality identifies four characteristics: emotional intensity, flexibility and open-endedness, holistic perception, and tactile sensitivity. A pilot test with 63 fourth graders resulted in statistical problems with validation.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Talent
Peer reviewedPlucker, Jonathan A.; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1996
This study evaluated the reliability and validity of a battery of instruments based on Multiple Intelligences theory, including teacher checklists and performance-based assessment activities developed for the identification of talent in culturally diverse and/or low-income kindergarten and first-grade students. Acceptable reliability but…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Alternative Assessment, Check Lists, Cultural Differences
