Italian Standardization of teacher and parent screenings for Identifying Gifted and Talented Children aged from 6 to 13

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https://doi.org/10.6092/2612-4033/0110-2215

Abstract

The present standardization study is based on a published paper titled “Identifying Giftedness: Validation of an Italian Language Giftedness Checklist for Teachers and Parents” by Fabio and Buzzai (2019). The purpose of the present study is to show the Italian Adaptation of the Giftedness Checklist of Sommer, Fink and Neubauer (2008), in both the versions for teachers and parents. The present screening can help to cope with multidimensional definitions of giftedness, and to cope also with the usefulness of information provided by parents and teachers.

More in depth, the specific aims are: 1) to show an easy administration of the screening test for identifying of gifted and talented children aged from 6 to 13; 2) to show how to sum the scores obtained and 3) to indicate how to easily compare them with z-scores.

Italian language screening and scoring rules are presented in the tables 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Author Biography

  • Rosa Angela Fabio, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina

    Full Professor of General Psychology. She mainly works in the area of automatic and controlled processes of attention. She is currently carrying out research on various aspects of cognition in gifted, Rett Syndrome and ADHD children. The main focus is on empowerment of logic, attention and working memory processes. She follows experimental studies in: Logical reasoning, Attention, Entropy and Cognitive Empowerment; Applications of cognitive issues in the field of teaching, learning, and school instruction; Assessment and empowerment training of thinking skills; Information technologies and cognitive processes. She is author of more than 400 international and national publications including several books. 

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2019-07-15

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2019)

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