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Instruments with the richest loadings on general intelligence (g) are the most useful for locating gifted children. Spearman’s g represents giftedness. Raven’s Progressive Matrices, Stanford-Binet scales, and Wechsler scales are the most widely used IQ tests in selecting gifted children worldwide. All were founded on the conception of intelligence as abstract reasoning (g), but each may locate a different...
Talent signifies potential for the attainment of excellence in some domain. Procedures for identifying academic talent that were developed at the turn of the twentieth century emphasized the measurement of a cognitive potential that was thought to forecast successful learning in any domain or learning context. While not rejecting the utility of the measures of cognitive ability devised to estimate...
The Johns Hopkins Talent Search model, which was pioneered in the early 1970s by Professor Julian Stanley, has now spread to countries around the world. Also known as the MVT:D4 model of talent development, the power and efficacy of this approach for identifying and serving students with above-grade-level mathematical and/or verbal reasoning abilities have been well validated. Researchers at Johns...
This chapter presents a new approach to the psychological assessment of intellectual abilities of the gifted based on the new cognitive-developmental theory of giftedness (Shavinina, this volume). The main shortcomings of conventional intelligence tests are briefly discussed. The nine methodological and procedural principles, which form this approach, are considered along with the examples of new...
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