Teachers' judgments of elementary students' ability, creativity and task commitment

Talent Development and Excellence

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-237

  Urhahne, Detlef ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy of teacher judgment; Creativity; Mathematics ability; Task commitment; Three ring model of giftedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865789180     PISSN: 18690459     EISSN: 18692885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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