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  • The purpose of this study was to examine the temperament characteristics that may affect teachers' appraisals of student aptitudes and their referral for gifted programs. Classroom teachers were asked to complete a modified version of the School-Age Temperament Inventory (McLowry, 1993) on three groups of elementary school students. These groups were: (a) economically disadvantaged gifted children who had been identified through a multiple-criteria evaluation process, (b) students who had been identified as gifted by traditional means (standardized test scores), and (c) students who had been nominated for gifted program screening by their classroom teachers. The teacher ratings of temperament factors were compared. There were no significant differences between the groups on teacher ratings of activity level or approach/withdrawal behavior. However, there were significant differences between the groups on ratings of task persistence and negative reactivity. The economically disadvantaged students were rated as less task persistent than either of the other two groups, and they were rated as more negative in mood than the students who had been nominated by their teachers for gifted program screening. Two open-ended questions added to the temperament inventory allowed teachers to describe the temperament factors they associated with giftedness. The two factors selected most often were task persistence and negative reactivity, the ones on which economically disadvantaged gifted students differed most from students in the other two groups. It was concluded that perceived differences in noncognitive behavior do influence teachers' recognition of gifted abilities in students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. There are strong indications that staff development to improve teachers' skills in recognizing attributes of giftedness in atypical populations should include instruction on the potential biasing effects of temperament factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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