The gifted rating scales-school form: An analysis of the standardization sample based on age, gender, race, and diagnostic efficiency

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-50

  Pfeiffer, Steven I ^a   Jarosewich, Tania ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Censeo Group LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Gifted identification; Gifted rating scales; Gifted screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847021849     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986206296658     Document Type: Article

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