The concurrent and predictive validity of a new screening test for young gifted children

There is a paucity of screening tests specifically designed to identify young gifted children. Due to this lack, a new screening test was developed and piloted in Rockford, Illinois and New York City. It considers two levels of thinking production (convergent and divergent) and four pathways of input and output (visual-motor; auditory-motor; visual-verbal; auditory-verbaI). There are explicit directions for administration and specific two and three dimensional materials which make the tasks gamelike. Given on an individual basis, the test takes approximately one half hour. Findings from the study in Rockford are presented and implications for future research are discussed.