- Reasons well (good thinker)
- Learns rapidly
- Has extensive vocabulary
- Has an excellent memory
- Has a long attention span (if interested)
- Sensitive (feelings hurt easily)
- Shows compassion
- Perfectionistic
- Intense
- Morally sensitive
- Has strong curiosity
- Perseverant in their interests
- Has high degree of energy
- Prefers older companions or adults
- Has a wide range of interests
- Has a great sense of humor
- Early or avid reader (if too young to read, loves being read to)
- Concerned with justice, fairness
- Judgment mature for age at times
- Is a keen observer
- Has a vivid imagination
- Is highly creative
- Tends to question authority
- Has facility with numbers
- Good at jigsaw puzzles
Characteristics of Giftedness Scale: Research and Review of the Literature
The Characteristics of Giftedness Scale was originally developed in 1973 after 10 years of teaching and counseling experience with the gifted. In 1978, it was published in the Colorado Association for the Gifted and Talented Newsletter. It appeared in the first brochure of the Gifted Development Center (then, the Gifted Child Testing Service) in 1980. The descriptors were selected to meet the following specific criteria:
(a) representative of the majority of children tested;
(b) applicable to a wide age range;
(c) generalizable to children of different socioeconomic backgrounds;
(d) gender fair;
(e) easily observed in the home environment;
(f) brief and clearly worded for ease of interpretation by parents.
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