بناء و تقنين مقياس الخصائص السلوكية للتعرف على الطلاب الموهوبين بجامعة الملك فيصل

Abstract EN

Contemporary researchers concluded that it has become necessary for the giftedness identifying approach to be a multidimensional and a multimethod approach to allow making out most of the different areas of giftedness in individual.

Accordingly, other criteria are proposed for gifted students identification and selection such as innovation tests, behavioral assessment tests, school achievement tests, estimates of teachers, parents and peers, and inventories of personality traits.

In this context, there is a scientific consensus that behavioral characteristics inventories create compatibility between cognitive dimension tests and behavior observations.

Based on the above, the current study matches modern trends, by conceiving a behavioral characteristics test and putting it in a comprehensive multi-criteria system which is consistent with modern theories in gifted identification in undergraduates.

This enables us to take care of gifted students, make right decisions, and build adapted enrichment programs.

The present work presents the psychometric characteristics of the scale.

The proposed test “AIBCfor- GSI” is composed of five dimensions, which can serve as interdependent subtests: cognitive dimension, emotional dimension, al dimension, field dimension, environmental dimension.

Results showed that the scale is good enough to be used as a gifted identification tool, and that its predictive value is high for academic achievement.

Results also allowed to analyze the relationships between several variables such as gender, specialty, and academic level.

Finally, we propose some recommendations to enhance gifted identification system and process.