e-Pedagogium 2013, 13(3):68-80 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2013.033

The Characteristics of Giftedness Scale for preschool age - similarities and differencies in preschool children giftedness assessment between nursery teachers and parents

Jana Marie Havigerová, Jiří Haviger, Kateřina Juklová
PhDr. Jana Marie Havigerová, Ústav preprimární a primární edukace, Pedagogická fakulta, Univerzita Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62, 500 03 Hradec Králové, e-mail: jana.havigerova@uhk.cz

The paper deals with the possibility of using a screening method for the assessment of intellectual giftedness in the 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 translated Czech version that was being verified from the aspect of parallel validity with a standardized IQ test. This CGS was filled in by 2 experienced nursery teachers and by parents of 56 preschool children. Their assessments were analysed from the aspect of similarity and diversity. The results confirm the assumption that parents mostly tend to overestimate their children, point out particular differences in assessment of nursery teachers and parents and consider their possible causes.

Keywords: characteristics of Giftedness Scale, preschool children, assessment of giftedness, parents, nursery teachers

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Havigerová, J.M., Haviger, J., & Juklová, K. (2013). The Characteristics of Giftedness Scale for preschool age - similarities and differencies in preschool children giftedness assessment between nursery teachers and parents. e-Pedagogium, 13(3), 68-80. doi: 10.5507/epd.2013.033
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