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

• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Lurian Dionizio
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Olga Maria Piazentin Rolim, Capellini, Vera Lúcia Messias Fialho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/24120
• topic: High ability or giftedness; Identification; Special Education; Altas Habilidades ou Superdotação; Identificação; Educação Especial.

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.