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Comments on an article by Albert Zieglera & Shane N. Phillipson (see record 2012-16824-002). The field of giftedness and gifted education is about 100-years (plus/minus) old. This new systems approach clearly brings many interesting topics to the discussion,some new and some old, but now organized in a complex structure. Thus, the concept of an actiotope, a component of the system that is potentiated with exceptionality,is a system itself. This “system-within-a-system” includes the action repertoire,goals, the environment, and subjective action space – all complex systemic structures on their own, which are introduced and described in detail by Ziegler and Phillipson. This “system-within-a-system” to the nth degree approach is well thought through and provides much food for thought. Yet, while reading the text, I had athought about what might be missing in this elegant and complex structure crafted by Ziegler and Phillipson. The remainder of this commentary will explicate that thought of mine. In short, it seems to me that Ziegler and Phillipson’s systemic view does not cancel out the ideas and findings of “traditional views” of giftedness, but takes the field, capitalizing on its previous accomplishments, in a new direction, fruitfully perpetuating the field’s development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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This special issue of High Ability Studies is devoted to contexts that support talent development. While numerous conceptions of giftedness consider the role played by the environment for talent development, most of these conceptions nevertheless viewed giftedness itself as an individual attribute. Newer approaches have, however, begun to fundamentally alter this view: The environment and learning contexts are not only important for talent development, but they also make up an integral part of what giftedness actually is. Plucker and Barab (2005), for example, have called for investigating “gifted transactions” (p. 210) rather than gifted individuals. In a similar vein, Ziegler (2005) defined giftedness as the property of a system made up of the individual and his or her environment. The articles assembled in this special issue emphasize different perspectives of the relevance of learning environments. The first three contributions present empirical studies on the relevance of learning contexts in general and in different cultural settings. The following two articles discuss important implications of current research for the establishment of supportive learning contexts at school. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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This book is a scholarly overview of modern concepts, definitions, and theories of intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education. The authors consider, in some detail, the roles of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom in giftedness and the interaction between culture and giftedness, as well as how giftedness can be understood in terms of a construct of developing expertise. The authors also review and discuss a set of key studies that address the issues of identification and education of children with intellectual gifts. This volume maybe used as a summary overview of the field for educators, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals who serve intellectually gifted children and their families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)
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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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Although the use of multiple criteria and informants is one of the most universally agreed on practices in the identification of gifted children, few studies to date have examined the convergent validity of multiple informants and objective ability tests in gifted identification. In this study, we illustrate the use of the correlated traits–correlated (methods—1) or CT–C(M—1) model (Eid, Lischetzke, Nussbeck, & Trierweiler, 2003) to examine the convergent validity of self, parent, and teacher ratings relative to objective cognitive ability tests in a sample of 145 4th to 6th graders. The CT–C(M—1) analyses revealed that teacher ratings showed the highest convergence with the objective assessments, whereas self-ratings had the lowest reliabilities and insufficient validity. Parent ratings were more reliable and valid than self-reports, but were outperformed by teacher ratings for most abilities. Overall, the CT–C(M – 1) analyses showed that the convergent validity of the ratings relative to the objective test battery was highest for numerical and lowest for creative abilities. Furthermore, whereas part of the shared variance between parent and teacher ratings reflected true convergent validity, agreement between parent and self-reports was entirely due to a shared rater variance. Our analyses demonstrate the usefulness and proper interpretation of the CT–C(M—1) approach for examining convergent validity and method effects in multitrait–multimethod data. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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The concept of intellectual giftedness has had a long history in the literature of psychology and education. However, though the existence of the phenomenon underlying this concept has never actually been disputed, there are multiple ongoing debates regarding its definition, methods for its identification, and subsequent programming. This essay is conceived to contribute to the discussion on intellectual giftedness and to provide a global context for the other articles in this issue. The essay is comprised of three major parts. First, we review the defining terms, contexts and theories historically and currently applied to the understanding of intellectual giftedness. Second, we comment on models used to identify it. Third, we discuss the major influences that directly shape the treatment of giftedness in a number of international settings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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