Schools often administer brief intelligence tests as the first step in the identification of students who are cognitively gifted. However, brief measures are often used without consideration of underlying constructs or the psychometric properties of the measures and without regard to the links between screening decisions and educational programming. This article provides an overview of these is...

To investigate whether giftedness might be misdiagnosed as ADHD, 71 gifted adolescents attending a summer residential camp were administered the Conners’ ADHD/DSM-IV Scales – Adolescent (Conners, 1997) and the Overexcitabilities Questionnaire – Two (OEQ-II, Falk et al., 1999). This sample yielded clinically significant scores at a rate more frequent than the national average of three to seven p...

Gifted and talented students do not constitute one homogenious group. This fact evokes the need for definition of their characteristics identification this population. Undoubtedly metacognitive skills can lead to recognize his/her strengths weaknesses him/herself upper levels pyramid knowledge. Moreover, giftedness at school requires more than IQ tests, as it is multidimensional. Research argue...