How many students should be designated gifted? Things like: "Has a vivid imagination." "Good sense of humor." "Highly sensitive."ġ(a). Some centers for gifted children put out checklists of "giftedness" so broad that any proud parent would be hard-pressed not to recognize her child. Of course, as the definitions get broader, the measurements get more subjective and thus, perhaps, less useful. Our country has a narrow view of what counts as merit." "That's a really important finding that is just totally ignored. "There's research that these other things like motivation and grit can take you to the same exact academic outcomes as someone with a higher IQ but without those things," says Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist who studies intelligence and creativity at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the book Ungifted. Recent intelligence research de-emphasizes IQ alone and focuses on social and emotional factors. "It's like measuring a 6-foot person with a 5-foot ruler," says Linda Silverman, an educational psychologist and founder of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development. In addition, IQ tests become less useful as children get older because there is less "headroom" on the test, especially for those who are already high scorers. He or she may be brilliant at mathematics but lack background knowledge or impulse control. No 6-year-old is truly mentally identical to a 12-year-old.
Scores are indexed to age, with 100 as the average a 6 year old who gives answers characteristic of a 12 year old would have an IQ of 200.īut there are problems with this framework. This concept matches the most popular tests of giftedness: IQ tests. One of the most popular definitions, dating to the early 1990s, is "asynchronous development." That means, roughly, a student whose mental capacities develop ahead of chronological age. Skip A Grade? Start Kindergarten Early? It's Not So Easy
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