Identifying Highly Gifted Children by Analyzing Human Figure Drawings: An Explorative Study
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In the present study, human figure drawings (HFDs) of 47 highly gifted children and 73 non-gifted children aged 7 to 9 years were examined. The Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHDT) and Naglieri’s Draw a Person: A Quantitative Scoring System (DAP:QSS) were used. None of the instruments showed significant differences in drawing-IQ between the two groups of children. However, closer examination showed that different items were present in the HFDs of highly gifted and non-gifted children. Out of 135 found items, 30 items were considered to be ‘exceptional’ and a possible indicator for giftedness. These findings suggest that analyzing HFDs on item level may be more helpful in identifying highly gifted children than computing drawing-IQs.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017