Detecting the effectiveness of two tools for detecting the talented from their teachers' points of view

Kamal Abdulmajeed, Huzaima

	Detecting the effectiveness of two tools for detecting the talented from their teachers' points of view
JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
Article 1, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 175-194
Author
Huzaima Kamal Abdulmajeed
Abstract
Education specialists have differed about determining the best ways to detect the talented. Since the appearance of the mental and psychological measurement movement, some scholars adopted intelligence ratios as a criterion to identify the talented and others went to rely on the degree of academic achievement. Each of these two methods has its own flaws and mistakes and a large number of talented children were victims of these two methods. Therefore the need to use other scales for the purpose of detection of talented children appeared because they provide valuable information which may not be obtained easily through objective tests and these scales are derived from consecutive studies of gifted and talented children , or from the conduct of the life of the talented people and genius who left their clear imprint in the history of human civilization and these scales are filled by teachers or counselors staying stick to the talented children in school and some of them filled by relatives and colleagues. Therefore, the researcher has adopted two scales and makes a comparison between them by extracting the psychometric properties in order to identify which one is better at detecting talented. The first measure is of (Renzulli, 1979) which estimates the behavioral traits of gifted students in the areas of stimulus, learning, and creativity. The second measure is of (Steinberg, 2010) in which he confirms on the three abilities: analytical ability, creative ability, and the practical ability. He stressed on the balance between these three abilities for the emergence of the talent of the child. In order to achieve the goal of this research, the researcher has applied the scale on a sample of gifted students consisted of (63) students into three schools for gifted students in Baghdad, Najaf, and Basra. Twelve teachers were selected from schools who have teaching experience of more than three years and are adjacent to the talented student monitoring his/her behaviors. The researcher has reached, after extracting the psychometric characteristics of each of the two scales, that both have high stability and high structure validity. The researcher has recommended the adoption of the two scales as a basis for detecting the talented by their teachers with the aim of sending those talented students to private schools special for gifted students, or if these students are found in ordinary schools, special classes and programs for the development and refinement of their talent are allocated to them and make the utmost benefit of it. The researcher has suggested doing more on the methods of the detection of talented and applied them early on the children before it is too late.

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