Identifying Gifted Students Using Teacher Rating Scales: A Review of Existing Instruments

By Tania Jarosewich, S. Pfeiffer, Jacqueline K Morris. 2002

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Best Practices in Identifying Students for Gifted and Talented Education Programs (2011, methodology): “Rating scales have become the second most popular tool for gifted assessment in the schools (Pfeiffer, 2002 ) and scales for identifying the gifted have proliferated, with more than 30 currently in publication (Jarosewich, Pfeiffer, & Morris, 2002 ).”
An Investigation of the Reliability and Factor Structure of Four New Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students (2009, methodology): “The Pfeiffer-Jarosewich Gifted Rating Scale (GRS; Jarosewich, Pfeiffer, & Morris, 2002) is also used to identify students in preschool through secondary school and includes subscales focusing on intellectual, academic, creative, and artistic talent and motivation.”
Identification of Gifted Students in the United States Today: A Look at State Definitions, Policies, and Practices (2012, background): “A related issue is the disquieting concern that few nontraditional and alternative gifted assessment tests and procedures have yet passed muster in terms of evidence of their scientific merit (Jarosewich, Pfeiffer, & Morris, 2002 ; Lohman, 2005 , 2009 ; Pfeiffer & Blei, 2008 ).”