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  • In contrast to intellectual giftedness reflected in high academic performance and often measured by IQ tests, there is growing recognition that other forms of giftedness exist. This paper focuses on creative giftedness, defined as high potential to produce work that is original and context appropriate. After a brief introduction to the psychological basis of creative giftedness, the role of school context in the development of creative potential is highlighted. Then an empirical study suggesting that creative potential is influenced by educational context is presented; pupils attending traditional and Montessori schools in France were compared on a set of creativity tasks in both the graphic and verbal domains. Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses were conducted as children were seen at two measurement occasions, with approximately one year delay. Results indicated greater scores on measures of creative potential for children in the Montessori context. The discussion situates the results in a broader context of issues concerning the development of creative giftedness through education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

  • In this article, we present a subtest of the Aurora Battery, Metaphors, a new measure for the identification of gifted students. Metaphors is an assessment of analytical thinking in the verbal domain with an open-ended response format, an alternative to the conventional achievement measures or analytical assessments in multiple-choice format often used for giftedness identification. The comprehension of metaphors requires a combination of comparative, categorical, and evaluative thinking, and an ability to map meanings—literal and figurative—from one word to another. In this article, we first show that performance on Metaphors can contribute to the identification of giftedness, and we identify the items that seem to contribute to this discrimination most effectively (Study 1). Next, the comparative terms of each subtest item were characterised according to two key aspects—the concreteness and similarity of their comparative terms (Study 2). Results showed that gifted children may be better identified when these aspects are considered. New perspectives on metaphor processing in gifted students and premises for the identification of giftedness are then discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

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