Summary: Studies regarding families with gifted adolescents reveal controversial results. This is mainly due to methodological problems. This article investigates 84 families with a gifted adolescent and 95 families with a non-gifted adolescent. ...
Interests and Leisure Time Activities of Gifted (Elementary School) ChildrenSummary: Interest in the phenomenon of gifted children, and in providing special courses and activities for such children, is steadily increasing. Nevertheless it is significant ...
Gifted Underachievers as Adolescents and Young Adults: Second Part of the “Drama of Gifted Underachievers”?The starting point of our study is a lack of findings regarding the development of gifted underachievers. Hanses and Rost (1998) called the ...
Gifted and not Creative? On the Creativity of Intellectually Gifted Children and AdolescentsThe few existing studies regarding the creativity of intellectually gifted children and adolescents revealed controversial results. Within the scope of the «...
Who is a high achiever? Operationalisation of high achievement in empirical educational research since the year 2000Abstract. In recent years, high-achieving students have received increased attention by researchers, ...
Zusammenfassung: Das Interesse der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht in der Klärung des Verhältnisses zwischen Arbeitsgedächtnis und Intelligenz. Es soll die Frage untersucht werden, ob Intelligenzunterschiede mit spezifischen Arbeitsgedächtnisprofilen, d. h. ...
Assessing giftedness with the CFT 20-R. Psychometric properties and measurement invarianceAbstract. The CFT 20-R is often used to assess fluid intelligence. Hence, it can also be utilized to assess giftedness. The present study is concerned with an ...
The General Ability Index – An alternative to the WISC-IV Full Scale IQ?Abstract. The latest edition of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children has undergone substantial changes, including withdrawal of verbal and performance IQ, new subtests and a ...
Selecting high school students for advanced placement in universities: Diagnostic problemsAlthough numerous German universities have started programs for gifted and/or high-achieving high school students (junior studies), so far these programs have not ...
Within the field of giftedness, “overexcitability” has recently become popular although the validity of the construct has not yet been examined comprehensively. So far, there is no psychometrically tested German questionnaire. Three studies with school ...
Development and Main Topics of Psychological Giftedness Research: A Scientometric Study of Publications Between 1980 and 2014Abstract. This study presents quantitative scientometric results on the development and ...
Parents’ assessment of the development of their gifted childrenAbstract. We investigated whether parents’ descriptions of the development of their gifted children differed from descriptions provided by parents of children with average intelligence. ...
Ability grouping at grammar school – characteristics of target group and developmental trendsAbstract. This study compares the development of attitudes towards learning and school as well as learning motivation in samples of ”regular” grammar-school ...
Zusammenfassung. In einer systematischen Beobachtung im Klassenzimmer wurde untersucht, ob sich das Arbeitsverhalten von Schülerinnen und Schülern in gymnasialen Begabtenklassen im Unterricht vom Arbeitsverhalten von Schülerinnen und Schülern in regulären ...Work habits in secondary school classes for the gifted: A systematic observation studyAbstract. Using systematic observation of lessons we investigated whether the work habits of students in secondary classes for the gifted (Gymnasium track) differ from ...
Validation of the Selection Procedure for Special Gifted ClassesConsensually, identifying children for gifted educational programs requires the use of multiple measures, but empirical results that validate these selection decisions are still rare. In ...
HAWIK-III and AID 2: Identifying intellectually gifted childrenAbstract. This paper evaluates the suitability of the HAWIK-III (German version of the WISC-III) and the AID 2 as IQ tests for identifying intellectually gifted children using a sample of 86 ...