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Identifying Young Gifted Children Using the Gifted Rating Scales—Preschool/ Kindergarten Form

Florida State University

Yaacov Petscher

Florida State University

This article reports on an analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of a new teacher rating scale designed to assist in the identification of gifted preschool and kindergarten students. The Gifted Rating Scales—Preschool/Kindergarten Form (GRS-P) is based on a multidimensional model of giftedness. An examination of the standardization sample using diagnostic efficiency statistics provides support for the diagnostic accuracy of the GRS-P Intellectual Ability and Academic Ability scales identifying intellectual giftedness, irrespective of the IQ cut score used to demarcate giftedness. The present findings extend the analysis of the standardization sample reported in the test manual and provide additional support for the GRS-P as a gifted screening tool.

Key Words: gifted identification • gifted rating scales • GRS • preschool gifted

Gifted Child Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 1, 19-29 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0016986207311055


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