When Parents and Teachers Assess Intellectual Giftedness of Preschool Children

• Authors: Jana Marie Havigerová , Kateřina Juklová , Jiří Haviger

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the possibility of using a screening method for the assessment of intellectual giftedness at preschool age by two groups of persons – nursery teachers and parents. It presents The Characteristics of Giftedness Scale (CGS) for preschool children from Linda Silverman and its Czech translation that was verified from the aspect of parallel validity with a standardized IQ test. The CGS was filled in by experienced nursery teachers and by parents of preschool children and their assessments were analysed from the aspect of similarity and diversity. The results show that teacher assessment is closer to the IQ test results compared with parents who tend to overestimate their children. Eight items with low agreement between the two groups of respondents were identified and their expected sources discussed.

Keywords

EN

Characteristics of Giftedness Scale; preschool children; assessment of giftedness; parents; nursery teachers

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 34
• Pages: 188-197

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Jana Marie Havigerová

• University of Hradec Králové

author

Kateřina Juklová

• University of Hradec Králové

author

Jiří Haviger

• University of Hradec Králové

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.13.34.4.15

Biblioteka Nauki

16538404