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Peer reviewedTaylor, Calvin W.; Ellison, Robert L. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1983
The article traces the construction, validation, and revision of 24 biographical inventories resulting in the Form U Biographical Inventory, which yields four scores (academic performance, creativity, leadership, and artistic potential) to identify gifted and talented elementary and secondary students as defined by the U. S. Department of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biographical Inventories, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBaird, Leonard L. – 1976
This review examines the accuracy and the concurrent and predictive validity of brief self-report information, and evaluates the promise and problems involved in its practical use. In section one, the power of self-report information for predicting and understanding grades is reviewed. In the second section, research on the influence of background…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Adults, Background
