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IDENTIFICATION OF GIFTED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT COMPARED WITH STRUCTURE OF INTELLECT SCREENING FORM FOR GIFTED WITH EMPHASIS ON CREATIVITY

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1981
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Purpose. This dissertation was designed to study the identification of gifted high school students. A comparison was made between the intelligence quotient (IQ) method of identification and the Structure of Intellect Screening Form for Gifted (SFG) method of identifying gifted students in the tenth grade in Broward County, Florida. Method. Random samples of forty gifted tenth grade students and forty advanced tenth grade students were administered the SFG. There was equal representation by sex. Gifted students were those who scored at least two standard deviations above the mean on a standardized test of intelligence. Advanced students were those who scored from 115 to 129 on the Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude. Students had to score in the gifted range on at least five of the ten subtests on the SFG to be classified as gifted. Special attention was given to scores on two divergent production subtests of the SFG as an indication of creativity. These subtests were divergent production of figural units (DFU) and divergent production of semantic units (DMU). Results. The results showed that there was a significant difference in change of classification from gifted to non-gifted and from non-gifted to gifted after testing on the SFG. There was no significant difference in the number of students in each category after testing. There was no significant difference in the scores obtained on either the DFU or DMU subtests by gifted males, gifted females, advanced males and advanced females. This was corroborated by analysis of variance computation of mean scores on both subtests. Neither main effect was a source of variation, and the interaction was zero. Recommendations. This study should be replicated using a random sample of all tenth grade students in Broward County, Florida. Continued study should be done at each grade level so that comparisons between and within grade levels can be made. An additional test, divergent production of symbolic units (DSU), should be added to test for creativity. Creativity should be utilized as a criterion in the identification of gifted high school students.
Title: IDENTIFICATION OF GIFTED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT COMPARED WITH STRUCTURE OF INTELLECT SCREENING FORM FOR GIFTED WITH EMPHASIS ON CREATIVITY.
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Name(s): BELSITO, ROSEANNE, author
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Urich, Ted R., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1981
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, FL
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 95 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Purpose. This dissertation was designed to study the identification of gifted high school students. A comparison was made between the intelligence quotient (IQ) method of identification and the Structure of Intellect Screening Form for Gifted (SFG) method of identifying gifted students in the tenth grade in Broward County, Florida. Method. Random samples of forty gifted tenth grade students and forty advanced tenth grade students were administered the SFG. There was equal representation by sex. Gifted students were those who scored at least two standard deviations above the mean on a standardized test of intelligence. Advanced students were those who scored from 115 to 129 on the Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude. Students had to score in the gifted range on at least five of the ten subtests on the SFG to be classified as gifted. Special attention was given to scores on two divergent production subtests of the SFG as an indication of creativity. These subtests were divergent production of figural units (DFU) and divergent production of semantic units (DMU). Results. The results showed that there was a significant difference in change of classification from gifted to non-gifted and from non-gifted to gifted after testing on the SFG. There was no significant difference in the number of students in each category after testing. There was no significant difference in the scores obtained on either the DFU or DMU subtests by gifted males, gifted females, advanced males and advanced females. This was corroborated by analysis of variance computation of mean scores on both subtests. Neither main effect was a source of variation, and the interaction was zero. Recommendations. This study should be replicated using a random sample of all tenth grade students in Broward County, Florida. Continued study should be done at each grade level so that comparisons between and within grade levels can be made. An additional test, divergent production of symbolic units (DSU), should be added to test for creativity. Creativity should be utilized as a criterion in the identification of gifted high school students.
Identifier: 11788 (digitool), FADT11788 (IID), fau:8715 (fedora)
Degree granted: Thesis (Ed.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1981.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-09, Section: A, page: 3963.
College of Education
Subject(s): Education, Tests and Measurements
Gifted children--Identification
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