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Taylor, 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
Hocevar, Dennis – 1979
Widely used measures of creativity are reviewed and classified into ten categories: tests of divergent thinking; attitude and interest inventories; personality inventories; biographical inventories; teacher nominations; peer nominations; supervisor ratings; judgments of products; nomination of eminent persons; and self-reported creative activities…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitude Measures, Bibliographies, Biographical Inventories
Baird, 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